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| Heidegger on a forest path. |
"Nature is present in all that is real. Nature unfolds in human work and in the destiny of peoples, in the stars and in the gods, but also in stones, things that grow, animals, as well as in streams and thunderstorms... [Yet] Nature can never be found somewhere in the midst of the real as simply one more isolated thing. [Nature as] the "all-present" is also never the result of combining isolated real things. Even the totality of what is real is at most but the consequence of the all-present... The "wonderful" [that is Nature] withdraws from all human producing, and nevertheless it flows through everything with its presencing."
- Martin Heidegger [GA 4: 52-53, Commentary on Hölderlin's "As When On a Holiday,"]
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| Hallstaater Lake, Austria (from cable car). Photo by Niemoczynski, June 2017. |
