Sentences with phrase «by being closer to nature»

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do we humans, so when we're driven by a desire to close that breach.

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550 Vanderbilt, a condo building in the Pacific Park development in Prospect Heights, was designed by the sustainability - oriented architectural firm COOKFOX with the intention of bringing its residents closer to nature to «increase their happiness and well - being,» the developer notes.

And would you have him nearer to you than to be in the same nature, united to you by a spiritual union, so close as to be fitly represented by the union of the wife to the husband, of the branch to the vine, of the member to the head; yea, so as to be one spirit?

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

That young redbud tree delicately budding in my front yard in early spring, that golden haze in which the rolling hills close to my home are bathed on a summer morning, that lovely pond on my walk home from work out of whose rushes a red - winged blackbird almost invariably flies up as I pass by in early autumn, that winter belt of trees across the street transformed by an ice storm into a glittering fairyland — all those beauties of which nature is so achingly and serendipitously full are likewise my modest sources of healing and renewal.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

There is an important role to be played by those who celebrate the lifestyle of our ancestors who were far closer to nature.

For it can be shown, by a close comparison of the two sets of texts, that the basic metaphysical ideas to be conveyed by that study were already very much in Whitehead's mind when he was writing on the philosophy of nature?

June 4, 2013 — The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique «living fossil,» without close relatives among other living frogs.

They were so good my instinctual reaction was to close my eyes so I could better comprehend their heady nature without being distracted by my pesky vision.

It's like we're playing with 4 -6-0 as a formation when Giroud is in his dry spell period — with no natural goalscorers, and Sanchez being the closest (which by comparing to other left wingers like Neymar, CR7 and Reus, is far from being a «goalscorer by nature»)

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Easy enough to follow by using the logic of «Insert self righteous rhetoric about being closer to nature with a dash of misogyny that pain is essential to childbirth here» and it all flows together.

Closer to Nature is an anti-colic starter set that was created to decrease airflow during feeding by using exceptional tubes and valves to enhance venting, making it safer for baby to drink.

The discomfort caused by ingesting air during feeding is thought to be a cause of colic, so these Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles are specially designed to help reduce air bubbles in the milk.

Three from this genre provide good reading: Masters of Nothing: How The Crash Will Happen Again Unless We Understand Human Nature (Biteback, # 12.99) is a joint work by Matthew Hancock MP, former chief of staff and current close adviser to the chancellor, and Nadhim Zahawi MP, who has been a successful businessman and entrepreneur.

With Tripoli beset by street battles and events seemingly coming to a head, we're still no closer to understanding the true nature of this mysterious and perplexing organisation.

The dense, metallic nature of K2 - 229b has numerous potential origins, and one hypothesis is that its atmosphere might have been eroded by intense stellar wind and flares, as the planet is so close to its star.

Now, in a paper published in the 11 March issue of Nature, a team led by Bernard Moss of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, shows that when monkeys were given MVA followed by the standard smallpox vaccine, they were completely protected from a dose of monkeypox — a close relative of smallpox — that was fatal to unvaccinated animals.

Officials with America's Natural Gas Alliance, based in Washington DC, say that the study is difficult to evaluate based on a preliminary review, but in a statement to Nature they add that «the findings raise questions and warrant a closer examination by the scientific community».

Each database tracked the presence or absence of organisms either listed as threatened or endangered by state or federal authorities, perilously close to being listed, or species of concern to The Nature Conservancy, which maintains biodiversity databases nationwide.

In compiling its report, the commission drew on data from the National Peatland Resource Inventory, drawn up by Richard Lindsay of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland to conclude that there are 67 000 hectares of surviving raised peatland in Britain, but that no more than a tenth of this is close to pristine condition, with a full range of plants and animals and water tables undamaged by drainage.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

The field of regenerative medicine, because of the very nature of the science and the rapidly evolving clinical developments, not infrequently lends itself to often close calls between what constitutes an individualized treatment being performed by a doctor within the scope of his medical practice on the one hand, and what constitutes a medical product that is currently subject to the authorities Congress has already charged the FDA with exercising.

Reporting in Nature Medicine this week, Philip Johnson, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and his colleagues managed to protect monkeys from infection with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the animal model that is closest to HIV, by shuttling a gene into their muscles that produces antibody - like molecules that work against SIV.

While things like 10,000 lux energy light lamps get closer to the level of outdoor brightness and are often used in the winter by those who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, nothing beats the benefits of nature with true sunshine.

And I live in a place where Im surrounded by nature, which for me is my close connection to God.

If organics are bursting your budget or they are not stocked in your store, you can still eat clean by choosing foods that are as close to nature as possible.

It stands to reason that the closer to nature you can get with your supplements, the better they will be received by your body and the higher the absorption rate.

Camp's statement is very close to me personally — by embracing the minimalism and the knowledge of nature, we simplify our lives and take them to a whole new level.

The Hobbit is by its very nature a weaker story than The Loord of the Rings, and trying to make it closer to the latter by filling in gaps in the lore is good for fans but not so good for storytelling.

Though directors Chin and E. Chai Vaserhelyi take breaks to interview the wives, the documentarians want as many of the eighty - nine minutes taken up with close - ups of the climb, and in a feature that could snatch a nomination for cinematography, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk capture the rain and sleet and pour down on the group as though Mother Nature is determined to keep the summit of Meru pristine, untouched by human hands.

Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is black, and decidedly odder than the original; Zaphod Beeblebrox now conceals his second head beneath the first, and is played with hyperkinetic gusto by Sam Rockwell as a President of the Universe whose patent idiocy recalls one or two Presidents much closer to home; Marvin the eeyore - like Android (voiced by Alan Rickman) has a cute appearance comically incongruous with his deeply depressive nature; and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the well - nigh disposable token female of the original radio show, has been elevated up to a genuine love - interest for dressing - gowned hero Arthur Dent (Martin «The Office» Freeman capably taking over from Simon Jones — although Jones turns up briefly as a «ghostly image»).

The combination of clever how - to details and wild fantasy is a throwback to the days of Disney's live - action man - against - nature films (only slightly grimmer), but it's flanked by a more down - to - earth depiction of the hero's youth in a zoo - owning Indian family, as well as a closing sequence that changes the meaning of everything that's come before.

Once the true task is revealed and at hand, the movie stays fairly close to Lewis» moralizing center, as each of the central characters finds him and herself tempted by the whims of human nature, mainly greed.

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Running until 17 February, the initiative aims to bring children closer to nature by involving them an hour - long activity that is suitable for students of all ages and abilities.

The anger over the decision by several retailers to stop carrying self - published titles continues to rage, as it is even extending to authors whose books were not even remotely close to the adult nature of titles that stores like WHSmith and Whitcoulls railed against.

Close in nature to concepts like Amazon Prime, in which members have a pre-determined number of ebook checkouts for one annual membership price, Freading allows libraries to allot patrons virtual tokens that are exchanged for borrowable titles, tokens that are bought with actual money by the library, as opposed to a flat subscription price for using the catalog.

Springwoods at Lake Ridge Apartment Homes is in a premium location, ideal if you enjoy being surrounded by nature while staying close to the urban lifestyle.

They're pack dogs by nature too, happiest when they have companions in travel, so your pet will stick close to your side throughout the journey.

Because cats are domesticated (not selected by nature) and many live with or close to humans, many individuals may be less afraid to approach and show offensive aggression to humans and dogs.

«By eliminating the grain, many owners feel their pets are getting the closest diet to what nature intended.»

Surrounded by unspoiled forest and close to the Sugar Pine Point state park, Tahoma and the ski resort of Homewood, our West Lake Tahoe cabins are ideal if you're looking to get back to nature, with a few added creature comforts.

Hennie's Rest is situated in Malelane and is the perfect self - catering choice for guests who want to be surrounded by natures famous animals close by while enjoying the tranquil and relaxing atmosphere.

Close by in the Kintinmani area, lies Mount Batur, and Mount Batur trekking is one of most popular activities in Bali for those who like to combine adventure and nature.

But the acres closest to the hotel are reserved for the fountain garden to accommodate 350 guests and are kept professionally manicured by the staff horticulturist and her staff to reflect the flora of the season ensuring that any Crescent wedding or reception held out of doors is amid the glorious grandeur of nature at its finest