“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.” NatureWonderMysticismSupernaturalOak TreeCowper Book:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life Source: Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life