Lopez goes on to chastise those who think hunting peoples such as the Eskimos are living in perfect harmony with nature. Nervous awe and apprehension are born out of proximity and attention. The greater the intimacy between these cultures and nature, the greater the tension. The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it. You can in your own minds recall the long Judeo-Christian tradition of fearing God.

In the Hebrew Bible there are twenty-six different words translated as fear. (As some Eskimo languages provide for many varieties of snow?)

The word most often used for fear of God is יָרֵא or yare', as in Deuteronomy 5:29 where it is written, "Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!"

This is the same fear used in regard to Egyptians, wild animals, and unknown wilderness. Reverence, awe, and such can also be read into the usage.  But it would be wrong to read-out being profoundly afraid.

The psychological abstraction of fear emerges from a more ancient usage of yare' meaning to shoot an arrow.  As the tension of bow-and-string are transferred to the arrow, so fear can release the tensions we experience.

How do I practically use fear?