How can we even think of asking to see divine glory when the whole Earth is already filled with it?

"Perhaps I do not understand the request of Moses, 'Show me Thy glory' (Exodus 33:18), but if he were here I would like to take him to one of our meadows, and after allowing him to drink the glories of flower, mountain, and sky, I would . . . inquire how he had the conscience to ask for MORE glory when such oceans and atmospheres were all about him. King David [in the Psalms] was a better observer: 'The whole earth is full of thy glory.' I think that if a revivalist, intoxicated with religion of too high a temperature for his weak nerves, were to awaken from his exhaustion and find himself in our meadows, he would, above such sheets of plant gold and beneath such a sky, fancy himself in heaven. Especially if a camp-meeting were going on at the time."

The Contemplative John Muir, pp. 57-58

Photo: Golden Banner, Arthur's Rock, and a vast sky; Lory State Park, CO; May 20, 2013. Muir is poking fun at the revivalist camp meetings he attended in the late 19th century midwestern frontier.