 Nature and culture are two different layers of human life. The two key concepts in this instance are rhythm and ritual. Rhythm is for Dewey a fundamental feature of the world, whose existence in nature predates “poetry, painting, architecture and music” (AE: 147). He, again, refers to such rhythmic processes in nature as “dawn and sunset, day and night, rain and sunshine”, “the circular course of the seasons”, “the ever-recurring cycles of growth”, and “the never-ceasing round of births and deaths”, which he believes created a rhythmic space for human experience already from its very dawn. Dewey argues further that new layers emerged into human existence once humans no longer merely observed the rhythmic changes of nature but started to participate in them in the form of rituals and other communal gatherings. Humans came to use the rhythms of nature to celebrate their relationship with nature and to commemorate their most intense experiences. Dewey writes: 