The worldly life is nothing but a material of delusion. Know that the present life (Literally: the lowly life i.e., the life of this world) is only playing and diversion, and an adornment, and a cause for mutual boasting among you, and mutual multiplying in riches and children.

A Psychology Today article provides evidence of animals experiencing awe at waterfalls and during thunderstorms. Safina says that play is connected to beauty — and both are driven by an impulse toward pleasure. For example, while birds sing as a form of territorial marking, that isn't the only reason.