♪ A wondrous place ♪

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Nothing towers more wondrous than man," is about creating narratives that are positive.

A wondrous place, for you and me.

Nagano Prefecture stretches off away to the north, where we drove well down the dirt road to find parking. Even though we are early, we still haven't beat the other hikers here. Japan has a vibrant hiking culture to match its wondrous landscape, and it seems like everyone has come out today to experience it. Okay, we're here. It's about seven o'clock in the morning. We're going to hit the bathroom and go up, and it's cold here. It's about 10 degrees celsius.

However important humans might have felt, however grand the aristocracy or urgent the news of the day, people knew that they were not the measure of all things, that above and beyond the earthly realm there was something else more mysterious, imposing and strange to which they would all regularly have to bow and which would relativise them in one another's eyes. The fanciest king was nothing next to a thunderous god, the mightiest invention pathetic next to an angry sea. But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of. It's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness. God has died and nature is to be pitied and patronised like a wounded, once proud animal. We have lost any redeeming sense of our own unimportance. We are at the same time, each one of us, told repeatedly that we could do and be anything. We might, with sufficient hard work, assume the presidency, unlock a major scientific secret or become known to the entire planet through our athletic or artistic prowess. We are also thereby subtly informed that only a very special destiny is valid. There is no dignity left in a so-called ordinary life.

But you know there are only one part of the wondrous body that God has given us?

there's a million wondrous wonders if you'd only shut your iPhone

The craftsmen fashion wondrous things,

A wondrous place for you and me.