ABSTRACT
Taking the stance of scientific ecology, the interrelationships detected in nature ultimately are construed in terms of causal or probabilistic law-governed biophysical interdependencies. It might be said that to lump different phenomena together as one “nature” frequently is simply misleading. To summarize, discussion of the two phenomenological vignettes given previously has revealed a number of key aspects of the natural world. First, it draws attention to a fundamental way of engaging with it that celebrates experience of its immediate occurring. Second, it reveals that this occurring of things in nature is always emplaced and that a mutual sustaining pervades their standing forth such that each is conditioned by the presence of its neighbours – all others that share this place. For example, it might be said that the phenomenological illustrations that the author offer are skewed in their portrayal of nature, revealing only what might be considered to be its pleasing, “gentle”, and harmless side.
