Nature

Outside Nature, which is infinite, there is, and can be, no being. [ Spinoza ]It is precisely because thinking starts in nature from the actuality of which thought is part that a philosophy of nature must oppose the idea that nature is identical with its concept. What identity there might be cannot therefore be consequent on the conceiving, but consists in what we might call the common root of their emergence, or the containment of the concept in the nature prior to its being conceived.[HOW NATURE COMES TO BE THOUGHT, Iain Hamilton Grant.]
Category:Biology