In the excerpt, the words "from the point of view" form a prepositional phrase.
A prepositional phrase is formed by a group of words that contains at least one preposition and an object. Moreover, prepositional phrases lack verbs and subjects but they modify nouns or verbs. In this case, "from the point of view" is a prepositional phrase because it is introduced by a preposition ("from"). Furthermore, in this case, this prepositional phrase is modifying the noun "things".