Nature

Four gonads
Horseshoe-shaped
Otherwise translucent

At the tideline, a beached moon jellyfish waits for the drying sun.

“Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don’t stop.” – Jack Johnson

Organic matter
Random combinations
Tremendous events

The colors and textures of autumn produce subtle beauty.

“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.” – Henry David Thoreau

Perennial grass
Texture structure
Move in the breeze

From both far and near, tall grass is an interesting feature of the shore landscape.

“The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again.” – Kristin Cashore

Devour remains
Replenish source
Eventual nothingness

Just above the tide line, an expired bird slowly sinks into the sand.

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling

Evanescence aware
Without interference
Natural raw material

Natural energy is a source of aesthetic nourishment, on a transitory walk through a waterlogged forest.

“For we wish not that nature coincide accidentally with the laws of our spirit, but that nature itself necessarily and originally not only express, but itself realize the laws of our spirit, and that it be nature and be called nature only to the extent that it does this.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Out and about
Elongated body
Short limbs

An unusual morning sighting on top of the beach dune, an elusive fox vixen appears fearless.

“The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Virtual state
Come into view
Passes into actual

The natural environment and internal interaction foster emotional outcomes. When engaged with a specific environmental venue, repeated visits engender nuance.

“We do not perceive things in ourselves, but at the place where they are. We only grasp the past at the place where it is in itself, and not in ourselves, in our present.” – Gilles Deleuze

Kindred impression
Open to influence
Integrity impression

There is always a close relationship between internal constitution and natural exterior appearance. The fortuitous jumble of compounding components require mental organization.

“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smell of rain
World glimpses
Time overlaps itself

Pulling away the cover of routine, simple delights unfold everyday under all kinds of conditions. Appreciate each ephemeral opportunity.

“Ferns were striving towards the light, spiraled stems uncoiling into fronds.” – Kate Morton

Inquiry into causes
Adapting questioning
Physical discourses

A hike through wetland habitats, surrounded by a hardwood forest interspersed with pines, adds experiential material for a probing consciousness. Awareness is locally implemented.

“Aristotle did not, however, presuppose that the first causes in question had to be something higher than the causes he had already discovered in the order of nature or of human experience.” – Oliva Blanchette