Separate stimuli
Coherent system
Holistic nature
The aptitude of comprehending things through our senses sometimes is confronted with dimensional perturbations. A correcting synthesis occurs through cognitive information processing at a higher level.
“Concept is divorced from precept, and thought moves among abstractions.” – Rudolph Arnheim
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
Physical endowment
Intellectual powers
Perceptual interpretation
Spiritual appearance in nature is incomplete in its true essence. Aesthetics moves observation beyond a deficient and impoverished view of reality.
“To each plane of reality there corresponds an instrument of knowledge adequate to the task of knowing that particular level of reality.” – Hossein Nasr
Fortuitous reciprocation
Invention utterance
Beyond truth
Embracing generalizations and idealization at twilight, contour elegance on the street gives flavor to life. Periods of heightened aesthetic experience transpose sensory impressions into tingling pleasure.
“Imagination is wiser than imitation because it does not limit itself to what it sees.” – Lucius Flavius Philostratus
Common assembly
Dissected drainage
Connected interdependent
Running through vales and mounds sharing a watershed collective, a river links springs, creeks, streams, lakes and the ocean. Areas of land perpetually drain downward into an increasingly large body of water.
“Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.” – Charles Kuralt
Faithful light
Coastal nuances
Ocean morning
Experiencing the sun dynamically rise over the ocean affects emotionally. Gazing out into a vast, slowly-shifting, color-soaked sky is empowering, decelerating time perception. Certain encounters provoke a need to update mental patterns.
“The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn’t down there, I don’t know.” – Graham Hawkes
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
Broadly accessible
Barrier dismissal
Passage allowance
A cultural sign of encouragement to promote action towards a profitable exchange adorns a restaurant window.
“The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” – Napoleon Hill
Luminous shine
Radiance uplift
Spiritual path
Art differs from the prevailing world by transforming natural things into an idealized reality. Here a self-illuminated pedestrian overpass located deep inside the Dulles airport terminal complex executes a futuristic environment in accordance with exceptionally conceived possibilities.
“If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us.” – Jim Rohn
Dizzy heights
Scenic beauty
Vistas of wonder
A modern spectacle of nature, snow covers the steep walls of this classic V-shaped valley. Roughly 20 miles long, the present canyon is a very recent geologic phenomenon caused by 10,000 years of Yellowstone River erosion.
“There are perhaps other canons longer and deeper than this one, but surely none combining grandeur and immensity with peculiarity of formation and profusion of volcanic or chemical phenomena.” – Gustavus C. Doane