Psalm 19

The heavens proclaim the glory of God,

and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. (Psalm 19:1)

"Creation had been given to man as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them....Although we tend to look on the Old Testament as a chronicle of fear in which men were far from God, we forget how many of the patriarchs and prophets seem to have walked with God with intimate simplicity. As age succeeded age the memory of this revelation of God seems to have withered away, but its leaf is still green in the Psalter."

--Thomas Merton, Bread in the Wilderness