Full Idea
The concentration on perduring physical things as existents in nature slights the equal claims of another ontological category, namely processes, activities, events, occurrences - items better indicated by verbs than nouns. Storms are as real as dogs.
Gist of Idea
Processes and events like storms are just as real as things like dogs
Source
Nicholas Rescher (Process Metaphysics [1996], 2.1)
A Reaction
The obvous response is that all of those entities are necessarily composed of things. But things exist at an instant, but his examples all need duration. His view needs the addition that the small things that compose them are themselves processes.
Book Reference
Rescher,Nicholas: 'Process Metaphysics' [SUNY 1996], p.29