I'll Ask Ya for Alaska

 “I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the
Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a
book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the
farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it.
Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors
seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted
everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not
extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.
Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of
the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm
world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at
the turning of water into wine - which was, after all, a very small
miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which
water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.”-----Wendell Berry