By taking temporality and context into account, we place ourselves back into the fold of nature, and the perceived seams that stand between culture and nature fade from view. In addition, the importance of natural rhythm becomes known. Those internal and species-specific rhythms, moreover, pulse in synchrony with the rhythms of the cosmos. Adam expands on the concept of rhythm, stressing its importance in life. As long as we ignore the experience of real time for favor of our own tick-ticking machines that simply count off at regular intervals, we will miss the rhythms and the tempos.
Conflicts arise from the intersections of natural and industrial, commodified time.
Human technology is based on an understanding of invariable, isolatable, and decontextualized mechanics. However, when this technology is placed into the dynamic fabric of interconnected and responsive life, it cannot help but have irreversible effects. How we understand time, then, is important. It must be taken in context so that whatever we do is conceived in a way that works with, rather than against, the full family of life. It also is important to remember that we are not the only ones that are perceiving but that we are also being perceived.