"…let me walk through the world with a joyous soul. 

No doubt, there is much in it to fill the heart with painfulness; and pessimism has turned to the strifes and sorrows of creation for proof of its dismal creed. 
But the goodness of God is written, too, in letters of gold on hill and lake and mountain and forest and stream.

Not a sunrise, but speaks of His patient and enduring grace. Not a sunset, but stirs the conscience of the sinner, and opens Heaven itself to the saint. So much of His divine glory, the Almighty Maker conveys . . .
  by His sunrise and sunset touches, 
  by His flowers and woodland trees, 
  by His vast ocean and starry sky. 
Therefore let me be strong and of a good courage — He remembers me, His redeemed child! 

The sights and sounds of the landscape ought to be preachers and trumpets of the glory of God. In the cool of the day, when I pass through the country fields, or climb to the summit of the hill, or sit and gaze across the sea — God and my soul should meet and talk."

– Alexander Smellie