There's a particular pleasure to be felt in the mighty things of nature: thunderstorms, the stars, vast deserts, oceans, the icecaps. One philosopher who analyzed our pleasure was Edmund Burke, who pinned a word to this sensation and ...See moreThere's a particular pleasure to be felt in the mighty things of nature: thunderstorms, the stars, vast deserts, oceans, the icecaps. One philosopher who analyzed our pleasure was Edmund Burke, who pinned a word to this sensation and theorized about why it was so nice: he gave us the concept of The Sublime.
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