Time available
Resource organization
Inherently subjective
True crepuscular rays start when the sun is below the horizon during twilight hours. Dependent on vagaries of stratospheric cloud cover, such occurrences are a spiritually magical moment in the solar cycle.
“Each agent is itself a stochastic dynamical system, since it may sample, or be plagued by, the uncontrollable randomness in its substrates and in environmental stimuli.” – James P. Crutchfield
Explanatory strategy
Representational capacities
Experience derivative
Tonally reversed visual information helps to intensify understanding.
“We cannot generalize without some degree of abstraction.” – Thomas Reid
Bright red single blooms
Contrasting yellow stamen
Formed during the winter
This compactly growing shrub located in the sandy front yard has glossy dark green leaves and December flowers.
“Shrubs like the yuletide camellia are the real foundation of the landscape.” – Norman Winter
Manifest itself
Sensuous presentation
Consciousness intervention
Moving though space and time can primarily be an aesthetic experience.
“Although the work is caught up in human time, it also belongs to the time of things in terms of that part of’ itself which is a thing in the world.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Indispensable part
Analytic process
Introspective methods
Accomplishing aesthetic goals even before the sun comes up is an excellent start to any day.
“A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
Out of nowhere
Background’s changing
Every moment
Stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean seven hundred feet, a visit to the Avalon Fishing Pier feels like a time-trip back to about 1958.
“Piers are good places for pondering the eternal enigmas of the universe.” – Howard Rodman
Judgment restriction
Contingent discretion
Asset liability
The elapse of time always offers new perspectives on potential opportunity.
“It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.” – John Burroughs
Theoretical elaboration
Indeterminate reference
Ambiguous delineation
Wandering through the strip-mall at dusk, abstract objects reflect off opposed surfaces.
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Open system
Ecological entities
Observational predicates
The ocean lake development area is a reliable early morning aesthetic destination, even as wilderness struggles for survival in an environment modified for human occupation.
“Moreover, biodiversity conservation does not occur in a sociopolitical vacuum.” – Sahotra Sarkar
Destination awaiting
Relaxation elegance
Retreat place
Certain places offer comfortable vantage points of contemplation.
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.” – Raymond Carver