Solitude.

Chatham, Rain Sweeping Over Sweet Grass Basin, 2005

If religion is meant to save, to awe, to cleanse, to fortify, then my faith is found at the tops of mountains and in the secrecy of woods, in the cradle of rivers, and at the bottom of the sea. I find in the solitude of nature reason and purpose. I have slept with solitude for so long that I have made her my friend, my accomplice. she follows me in the fields, the woods, the rivers, faithful as a shadow.

Guy de la Valdene, from The Fragrance of Grass