sublime in nature

"The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; .... In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings and hurries us on by an irresistible force. "
Edmund Burke, On The Sublime and Beautiful