Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

Timothy Morton Quotes