Landscape

Biological production
Dominated by grasses
Significant degree

Not easily navigated on foot, an area of low-lying land on the York River is periodically flooded and typically remains waterlogged. Being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this marsh is brackish and experiences tidal fluctuations.

“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant

Internally consistent
Occasion appropriate
Inherent naturalness

Composites of multiple elements interact with potential transformative affects. Certain patterns reappear across a range of dimensional temperature gradients, stimulating an aesthetic psychological frame expressed in quantity of experience.

“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

New time period
Feeling of power
For the morning

Across an infinite time and cosmos, natural cyclic change offers the hope of eternal revitalization. In a perpetual sequence of novel phases, built on an ever expanding past, the only constant is the process.

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau

Naturally gravitate
Calming effects
Feel at one

Walking on the shoreline offers contemplative time for thinking, focusing and connecting. The the ocean experience actually changes brain wave frequencies and induces a mild meditative state.

“The physical sensation of putting your feet in warm sand causes people to relax.” – Richard Shuster

Steaming vents
Spouting geysers
Boiling hot springs

Resulting from the ever-shifting dynamics of active geothermal properties, numerous volcanic particularities are visible all along the designated trail, like miniature geysers, bowl-shaped bubbling pools, and colorful hot spring run-off channels. Porcelain Basin offers much to contemplate!

“The albino basin gets its porcelain color from siliceous sinter, a mineral that has been deposited by centuries of thermal activity.” – Seth Smigelski

Through which
Hot sulfurous
Gases emerge

Illuminated by the sun on a cold winter morning, steam emits from the planet’s crust. The mind’s awareness shares in the passage of nature.

“There is time because there are happenings, and apart from happenings there is nothing.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Barren area
Billowing sand dune
Processes of denudation

Inhospitable places provide a sense of something intimate in the unsympathetic. Feeling intimacy augments meaning attributed to existence.

“The immense desert, empty as a bird’s wing, inspired him with promise.” – Mike Bond

During peak
Afternoon heat
Surface intensified

Sand is composed of tiny rock fragments, including quartz, feldspar, gypsum, basalt, and calcite, with a scattering of shell shards sometimes included. As the summer day progresses, sand receives solar energy via the process of radiation. Temperatures as high as 150°F can be attained, sufficient to inflict third-degree burns.

“People have blistered up and had to go to the hospital because of the burns on their feet.” – Gary Felsh

Narrative imagination
Hermeneutic circle
World of action

In general, understanding of each individual part is established by reference to the whole, while understanding as a whole is established by reference to individual parts.

“What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way.” – Martin Heidegger

Involving extent
Process changes
Static description

Dynamic forces progress at various rates. The underlying drivers of existence are the same in every instance.

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein