Nature is a process. As in the case of everything directly exhibited in sense-awareness, there can be no explanation of this…

“Nature is a process. As in the case of everything directly exhibited in sense-awareness, there can be no explanation of this characteristic of nature. All that can be done is to use language which may speculatively demonstrate it, and also to express the relation of this factor in nature to other factors.”

–Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature (viasyntheticphilosophy)