The longevity-based dominance of nature (i.e. shortsightedness that permits nature to “slow[ly] decay” man’s creations) seems to, according to WW, have a religious component. Specifically, WW declares that “there is a Spirit in the woods,” at the end of Nutting. This spirit seems to be driving the growth and advancement of nature. In regard to religion, the presence of God (or the equivalent) is immutable. There is not a beginning, nor end, to God which is in stark contrast to the transitory nature of man. Such perpetuity is where the connection arises to nature. While nature likely has an end (inevitable end of Earth) it is comparatively longer than the existence of man. WW furthers this in the “Hart-Leap Well” by describing “The Being” who “is in the clouds and air, / That is in the green leaves among the groves.” Such seems to indicate that there exists a relationship between religion and nature. It seems that, at least on a basic level, the similar longevity of nature and faith yields such a relationship.
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