Naturally gravitate
Calming effects
Feel at one
Walking on the shoreline offers contemplative time for thinking, focusing and connecting. The the ocean experience actually changes brain wave frequencies and induces a mild meditative state.
“The physical sensation of putting your feet in warm sand causes people to relax.” – Richard Shuster
Steaming vents
Spouting geysers
Boiling hot springs
Resulting from the ever-shifting dynamics of active geothermal properties, numerous volcanic particularities are visible all along the designated trail, like miniature geysers, bowl-shaped bubbling pools, and colorful hot spring run-off channels. Porcelain Basin offers much to contemplate!
“The albino basin gets its porcelain color from siliceous sinter, a mineral that has been deposited by centuries of thermal activity.” – Seth Smigelski
Unique occurrence
Analogous character
Event stream
An emotional abstraction in space and time lies on the boundary between theory and the unknown as a function of exploration and discovery. Learn the territory by walking around.
“The most powerful way to gain insight into a system is by moving between levels of abstraction.” – Bret Victor
Striking particulars
Detailed deductions
Observation acceptance
A significant pleasurable cognitive state is potentially triggered by specific experience conditions. Aesthetic moments present when and if the recipient is mentally prepared for acquiescence.
“Nature is known to us in our experience as a complex of passing events.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Tranquil stillness
Near field expanse
Winter experience
Serene tranquility balances exterior sensations with a feeling of inner peace. It promotes awareness of life’s wonders, fully connected to the universe and to ourselves.
“Nature is the best medicine for serenity. Peace, calmness, stillness. It’s good for the heart.” – Karen Madwell
Veracious unity
Palpable independent
Extension relation
A general theory of the world can be formulated at the beach by constructing metaphysical principles from the natural experience of the dynamics of becoming.
“It is this unit factor, retaining in itself the passage of nature, which is the primary concert element discriminated in nature.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Divine proportion
Element distribution
Arrangement allotment
Looking out from within, organization is imposed on sense awareness as an immediate subject of experience.
“Form itself, even if completely abstract … has its own inner sound.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Iridescent plumage
Coastal saltwater
Sand forage
Exhibiting behavioral flexibility, grackles are extremely opportunistic omnivores. They often forage near water, by walking on the shore and catching items with rapid bill thrusts. Food particles wash-in with the waves, including many insects, crabs, mussels, shrimp, and small fish.
“At times the grackles waded into the water with their tails elevated and plunged their heads under the surface for food.” – Steven J. Zottoli
Natural duration
Continuity attentive
Awareness shares
Rhythm reveals ideas, as poetic imagination establishes narrative thought peripheries.
“Here wholeness is self-integrating in active performance, and form for once is the cause rather than the result of the material collections in which it successively subsists.” – Hans Jonas
Through which
Hot sulfurous
Gases emerge
Illuminated by the sun on a cold winter morning, steam emits from the planet’s crust. The mind’s awareness shares in the passage of nature.
“There is time because there are happenings, and apart from happenings there is nothing.” – Alfred North Whitehead