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Re:Birds Are Vanishing from North America by chaoticmass on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:23PM (#21020345)
Carl Sagan wrote about the numinous, a feeling of awe from looking at the night sky. Can't remember if it was Cosmos, or Contact, or one of his other books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous

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Re:Birds Are Vanishing from North America by keiferski on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:46PM (#21021046)
The Sublime is a similar concept from the Romantic era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)

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