Nature

Predator confusion
Dilution effect
Amazing spectacle

The sky is filled with black birds forming a massive flock winging its way somewhere.

“Oh Daddy, there were hundreds of them… Just now, not fifteen minutes ago… at the school… the birds didn’t attack until the children were outside the school.” – Melanie Daniels

Fresh creation
Actual occasion
Reality components

The swamp becomes colorful as fall leaves fall.

“Becoming is the deepest dimension of Being.” – Steven Shaviro

Relating to
Derived from
Living matter

Organized matter under-foot in the swamp.

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resident
Intruder
Conflict

Causes and consequences of territorial behavior in odonates are observable at the pond’s edge.

“The main benefit of territoriality is increased access to females, and the costs may accumulate due to predation, injuries, and/or energy loss due to territorial contests.” – Jukka Suhonen

In the crack
Medicinal plant
Narrowleaf plantain

A weathered door accents robust flora.

Carp pond
Healthy vegetation
Energy patterns

Selective focus abstracts the distant shore.

“The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully.” – Kirk Varnedoe

Sonata movement
Indefinable resemblance
Unity atmosphere

An atmospheric ambiance shimmers and changes while nourishing a continuous process which maintains its essence.

“It has an atmosphere that diffuses itself, not because it is ungraspable, but because it has the positive power of extending itself beyond the particular objects of which it is the quality and of drawing other objects to it in order to disclose itself through them.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Micro ecology
Distinct moments
Spread out

Circumstances follow predictive cycles.

“True duration flows beneath space and spatialized time.” – Henri Bergson

Common origin
Fill the interval
Momentary spark

Commercial fishing vessels throw fish parts into the ocean that subsequently wash-up on shore.

“It is as if a broad current of consciousness had penetrated matter, loaded, as all consciousness is, with an enormous multiplicity of interwoven potentialities.” – Henri Bergson

Entangled circumstances
Objective background
Unintended acts

Perception is a background of what is present.

“Not only do we now have an expectation of the datum, then a perception of it, then a memory as retention, then a recollection, then a repeated recollection, but these series of acts also stand as series before our consciousness in the recollecting reflection.” – Edmund Husserl