"In one way then, nature is spoken of thus, as the first material underlying each of the things that have in themselves a source of motion and change, but in another way, as the form, or the look that is disclosed in speech. For just as art is said of what is according to art or artful, so also natur"
"And this form or look is nature more than the material is. For each thing is meant when it is fully at work, more than when it is potentially. Moreover, a human being coms about from a human being, but not a bed from a bed."
"On this account, they say that not the shape but the wood is the nature, since if it were to sprout, it would become not nature, for from a human being comes a human being comes a human being. And still further, the nature spoken of as coming in to being is a road in to nature. For is it not like th"