Nature

Universal sense
Reconciling itself
Internal coherence

Accustomed to accepting changes with eyes focused on land and sky, a long autumn walk proceeds in vigorous anonymity. Remembering that mental symbols do not reflect or correspond to the immense complexity of the referent, bright trees stand tall.

“Whenever we have any experience which might be called ‘aesthetic,’ that is whenever we are enjoying, contemplating, admiring or appreciating an object, there are plainly different parts of the situation on which emphasis can be laid.” – C. K. Ogden

Completely changed
Material constituents
Rearranging themselves

The present is always a brief window of opportunity blending into an evolving creative future. Situated in time, the surrounding space of experience grows expansively vast.

“Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

Physical parallelism
Determining conditions
Correspondence states

The enigmatic cognitive relationship between reason and feeling manifests in the presence of beauty, while the essence of the beautiful itself remains inexplicable. In aesthetic observation, nature may be considered as an artist in its own way.

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Spatial positions
Temporal periods
Apparent events

Early morning light shines on seasonal change, intensifying the transcendence of time beyond substance that nevertheless affects nature. Some spatial positions repeatedly capture attention and help to determine the character of apparent quintessence.

“In sense-perception nature is disclosed as a complex of entities whose mutual relations are expressible in thought without reference to mind, that is, without reference either to sense-awareness or to thought.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Common point
Extend diverge
Propagate out

Nature often seems to demonstrate effortless mathematical representations of symmetry laws. Physically forming a pattern as lines drawn from the interior to various points on the perimeter, this plant well complements the intense summer sunshine.

“When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.” – Chen Ning Yang

Self-reliant
Species concept
Environmental adaptation

Vegetation distinctions are part of what makes travel to exotic localities appealing. Each destination has its own exclusive essence and atmosphere, including the quality of the ambient light.

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” – John Dryden

Naturalized
Widely cultivated
Perennial vine

Atrociously invasive, this attractive vine is almost impossible to eradicate once established. Unlike other herbaceous vines, a unique distinguishing characteristic of the air potato plant is that all leaf veins start from the leaf base.

“A supposedly daring insight came up, disguised as a question: Dr. Cole, aren’t humans the most invasive species of all?” – Joe Pitkin

Live oak
Boarding house
Correlation of elements

On the fringe of the Rapides Cemetery in Pineville Louisiana is an old deserted boarding house. Under the boarded-up structure is a potter’s field.

“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

States of consciousness
Even when successive
Permeate one another

When exercising the mental faculty of acquiring knowledge, by either direct observation or by understanding, the True and the Good are united in the Beautiful. In actuality, the philosopher must possess just as much aesthetic power as the poet.

“Theoretically the part played by consciousness in external perception would be to join together, by the continuous thread of memory, instantaneous visions of the real.” – Henri Bergson

Actual atmosphere
Cumulative force
Return to origins

A certain amount of aesthetic exploration helps to maintain interest in the accumulation of ordinary experience. In a curious sense, where I stand is always in an artistic laboratory, with excess energy strewing innovative designs about.

“Each is a link in an endless chain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson