How would you answer arguments about the cruelty of nature and poor design in nature arguments by atheism against theism. In other words if the universe is unconscious, unfeeling, random and poorly designed why as the OP says is it "worthy of reverence " .
It's a serious charge and legitimate charge against pantheism that it can tend toward the saccharine, accentuating the positive and conveniently forgetting the negative - after all, if nature creates kittens, rainbows and sunsets (good), it also creates rectal cancer, the West Nile virus and flash floods (bad). If nature is a totality and a unity you can't smile on the first set and try to brush the other set under the mat and forget all about it.
It's a thoughtful criticism, but it's answered (I would dare to say) by the fact that there's a signal difference between awe and worship - the latter implies positive emotions toward a thing which the former doesn't, necessarily. Leni Riefenstahl's films of the Nuremberg rallies are awe-inspiring because they were vast spectacles
meant to be awe-inspiring, yet nobody but Nazis would think that a Nazi rally is a good thing. Very much otherwise. Just remember that description isn't prescription.
To bring the analogies closer to the subject of the thread, consider a common feature of the natural world - a tornado. Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7X3fyId2U0I find that awe-inspiring (I can watch that sort of thing all day long), but not something to worship. It provokes feelings of awe because it's colossal in size and immensely powerful, but we wouldn't say that it's a good thing from a human point of view when humans get in the way. There's no intentionality, conscious purpose or planning ability in a tornado; it's just what stuff does in the universe in which we find ourselves. Tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and all the rest of it - these things make us feel small and remind us that although we're a part of nature too ultimately we are, as Pascal put it, just reeds, the weakest thing in nature (albeit thinking reeds, as he added). Only a day or two ago Rhiannon remarked that being made to feel small or being reminded of how small we are is good for us - it reminds us of and connects us to the natural world but it also puts us in our right place and puts our often disproportionate fears, worries and ambitions/plans into perspective.
As my seeming new ally Richard Dawkins would say" do we revere God because we are like imprinted ducklings".
Very possibly.
