Nature, like existence, is being and change. But nature is that way of seeing existence where its changing through what it is, is accented.
How does existence do things? The answer to this is, Nature.
Nature is and changes. That it changes cannot be seen as apart from the fact that it is. Isness, seen as change, is nature, too.
Existence is one and diverse, as is every instance of existence. Existence as such, however, is the greatest oneness and the greatest diversity, seen as one. How this is, this oneness and diversity, is existence as nature.
Whenever a new thing is thought of, it, just so, is of existence or nature. For it can be nowhere else. It is, so it is in existence. It is existence as changing, so it’s nature. It’s also the world, reality, the universe, thingness, and, if one doesn’t mind, God.
How a specific thing is and how it changes, is also its nature. Nature is an infinite aggregation of natures. Nature is incomprehensibly dazzling and incomprehensibly still. Its dazzling is its motion; its stillness is its being.
All things are forms of nature; because all things can be seen to belong to it. Nature can be seen as the form of all things, for the world can be seen as belonging to all things.
Nature is everything. The full meaning of everything is what we’re finding out by being alive and keeping on living. For nature was everything yesterday, and will be everything tomorrow. Tomorrow will have new things; tomorrow will have everything; but so did today. The two everythings of today and tomorrow are both complete; and as nature is, the same and different.
Nature is perfect, because any notion of perfection, if embodied, will be through it. It is perfect also because to be perfect, as I have said, is to be everything; and nature wouldn’t be everything if it weren’t imperfect, too; and it wouldn’t be everything if it didn’t have a lack; and it couldn’t do everything if it couldn’t leave out something; and it couldn’t show everything if it didn’t show evil or weakness, too. Its imperfection, then, is a phase of its perfection; and its lacks a phase of its completeness; and its weakness a phase of its strength.
Nature is large and small. Largeness and smallness are related to whole and part. If we saw one way of seeing nature included in another way, the including way would be the source of largeness; the included way, of smallness. All size in nature is based on the simultaneous infinity and finiteness of nature. The infinite is the constantly including; the finite is the constantly included.