The Romantic rejection of cultural norms was closely linked to the backlash of the Industrial Revolution. “Industrial changes convinced the Romantics that the natural world was purer than the industrial world,” which led many Romantics to live separate from rural areas (Galens 301). Therefore, the Romantics treated nature in an almost religious manner, because they “believed that there must be a god who inspired the imaginative and spiritual aspect of humans” (King 34). Many romantics believed that the natural world was a source of healthy emotions because it was existentially inspired, unlike man-made rural areas. As a result, writers of the time placed great importance on the beauty of nature and the emotions that resulted from it. In Coleridge's poem, "Frost at Midnight", he summarizes the Romantic period with its details about nature by describing its "extreme silence". Sea, hill and wood/This populated village! Sea, hill and wood/With all the countless events of life” (10-12). Coleridge, very typical of a romantic, places full emphasis on the beauty of nature: its peaceful serenity and everything working together to create a functioning ecosystem. Coleridge connects romanticism and nature to form a concept that one's identity can be found in nature, rather in man-made industrialized areas.