Whatever was
Assumption element
Former life
Moving within the pattern of nature, meditation often seems to revolve around crucial aspects of existence. Starting with the essentials, things begin anew every day.
“Then maybe I’ll stop and look around at the scenery, with a freshly smoothed-out brain.” – Neil Peart
Forest cooperation
Irregular intervals
Over a surface
Describing many entangled and reciprocal elements, a stand of trees on a hillside is sophisticated yet visually subtle. The spatial distribution of the interrelated ecological variables compliment the cool gray ambience.
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.” – Herman Hesse
Certain amount
Cool conviction
Clinging connection
Dead tree outlines juxtaposed against vibrant fall foliage stimulate visual pleasure. It is fortunate that many external physical manifestations provide intense feelings of elegance.
“Treat every natural beauty you met as if you see them for the first and last time!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitary rambling
Cool and delicious
Sinuous adrenaline zone
Aesthetic effort strives to make sheer existential stimulation something distinctive. It takes extensive experience to extend beyond what is known or has already been done.
“From first to last the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.” – Neil Peart
Altered environment
Much happens
In a day
With wet snow clinging to every natural surface, textural outlines are well defined. Grateful for good memories, intimately exploring a local area develops distinctive feature understanding.
“When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped.” – Jack London
Forest tapestry
Wilderness mysteries
Inexhaustible realm
Slumbering just below the surface, tree pattern juxtapositions follow ancient traditions and insights. Captured long ago on a trip out west, seasons and phases come and go as beauty prances around.
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
Something in common
Existing independently
Aesthetic approaches
Isolating particulars as visual components of a conceptual response, ideas endure continuous change. Natural processes drive the diversity and unity of life.
“What about someone who believes in beautiful things, but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself…? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state?” – Plato
Extended existence
Substance essence
Identity attributes
Indivisible temporal episodes must be filled with some real objects or existence. Yet the idea of duration implies a succession of elements over time in an imaginative fixed moment isolated from change.
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” – Baruch Spinoza
Expansion experience
Perceptual horizon
Accumulated objects
On the river shore, selectively attending to different environmental contingencies is enlightening. Evidence of flow pattern remnants offer a heightened attainment to the generative process of existence.
“Our proper identity is a kind of change.” – Jeff Morrisey
Primitive elegance
Complex compound
Realistic implications
Like many terms, the word nature encompasses a plurality of meanings. Shifting priorities, styles, moods, and ideologies render concepts fluid through time. The most significant distinction involves humans as being either part of nature or completely separate.
“It is not sufficient that every science be digested into a separate system; – every particular branch ought to be adapted to the whole, and all of them collectively applied to the use and benefit of mankind.” – Friedrich Nicolai