How does nature connect us to God?

You have frequently referred to the beauties of vegetation in the spirit world. Do you have anything corresponding to our husbandry—the producing of crops for sustenance?

No—the crops we have here are not for sustenance in your sense of the term. They help to feed, to gratify the spiritual eye, ministering to our love of beauty but we do not require to be fed as when in the body. 

What sort of a place would Earth be were it devoid of its grand old mountains and lofty hills—its flowing rivers and its broad seas—its smiling valleys and fruitful plains—its woods and waterfalls and all the variegated scenery that clothes it in loveliness? 

Well—all these that minister to your every sense on Earth, on which your soul loves to feed—all these are here. 

Rocky mountains in all their hoary grandeur—smiling and peaceful valleys, clad with life-giving fruits and flowers—the grain waving its golden heads—the quiet, solemn woodlands—the rivulets running over their pebbly beds and singing as they run—the beautiful cascades and the awe-inspiring waterfall with its voice of thunder—the great ocean with its wild waves beating on the rock-bound shore and telling their old story to the questioner in sonorous tongue. 

If you love to contemplate these grand and glorious features of Nature on Earth, you will not be deprived of them here, for we have all these—and far greater in grandeur and beauty than aught Earth can produce.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia