Free Topic Four: Writing A Research Paper about Landscape -Matt Latham

The bulk of my Research paper is centered on how landscape is pivotal in creating an environment suitable for religious or spiritual discovery. I’ve grown quite fond of this idea over the whole week ordeal. It makes so much sense after going through Lane and Turners book to see that the divine is obviously present in the wild. Lets take the weather for example. First lets operate under the assumption that God is the most powerful thing in the universe. That said lets look at a hurricane. Before the modern Age of man nothing else had the power to destroy whole villages, to threaten the lives of thousands of people. That is the power of God, to destroy. Now lets look at a forest fire. The forest fire destroys, yes. But afterwards there is a resurgence of new life. A Pine cone will only release its seeds if heated to the point of burning. It is a fail safe, it is order. This is the order that God represents, He destroys but he provides.