Sentences with phrase «draw on nature»

The exhibition proposes an exploration of artworks that draw on nature, either by adopting organic forms or incorporating natural elements.

Over the past few years I've discovered that there are a number of different ways we can draw on nature to relieve our stress.

During these last years of her life, Thomas was challenged by arthritis and deteriorating eyesight, but she continued painting, drawing on nature and music for inspiration, up until her last days.

Drawing on nature's design library has given birth to glue inspired by lizards, coatings inspired by beetles,

In her talk, she outlined the basic principals of biomimicry, which involve drawing on nature's R&D; for three basic areas of innovation: mimicking form, mimicking process, and mimicking ecosystem.

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After the conference, Spicer offered additional clarification, telling an NBC reporter, «In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however, I was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on innocent people.»

God Himself drew on the human nature itself in order to teach us completely about Himself.

The Roman Catholic case against the technological timing and mechanization of» reproduction draws on a certain understanding of the nature of marital intimacy.

Images drawn from nature thus became an accustomed medium for Jesus to articulate his teaching on the Kingdom of God.

In a similar way — in the material and economic realm — liberalism has drawn down on age - old reservoirs of resources in its endeavor to conquer nature.

The study draws a number of important conclusions on the basis of careful analysis both of the research data and on the basis of the understanding of human nature that was unanimous until recently among Catholic philosophers.

When Clement of Rome, writing at the end of the first century, discussed the Christian hope of resurrection, he drew on some of the phenomena of nature to show that the symbol of resurrection is found in the natural world.

Richard Jordan asks, «How can a line drawn by man infringe on rights given by nature?»

The minister will draw on all of his resources of empathy, interpersonal sensitivity, and compassion for those caught in the tentacles of an excruciating problem, but he should not attempt to diagnose the specific nature of the difficulty.

Granted that nobody spoke like him, worked the miracles he did and defied the laws of nature; but this could be possible, it was argued, by drawing on divine support.

This draws on the teaching that man is by nature «capax Dei», and that the Creator never ceases to draw us to Himself.

At his birth a human being enters on the scene of life, draws a breath of air, beginning the process of living with a cry of pain, pays the tribute of a tear to Nature, just tastes life's sorrows before any sweets have been his, and before his joints have consolidated, tender as he is, he dies, perhaps because he was left exposed as a newborn child, or because he has suffocated, or because some illness has suddenly put a stop to his life.

Further, given the foundational nature of the Noahic covenant — a re-creation, as it were, out of the chaos of water — the death penalties in Moses, mutatis mutandis, draw on and apply more expansively the justification for the penalty God articulated to Noah.

They are divisions in the passage of nature, and where you draw the boundaries between events seems to me to depend on how you want to describe them, e.g., «What is going on in this discussion.»

The organism draws its genes from an enormously variegated gene pool; it develops under the influence of them and also under those of a probably pretty heterogeneous environment; and, at any given stage of its life, the way its genes and its previous environment have acted up to that point may have considerable effect on the nature of the environment to which it will next be subjected — if the animal does not like it here it may migrate someplace else, and so on.

First, there is the tension between Western notions of human reason — nature - controlling, deductive and scientific — and a more embodied, feeling, experiential approach which draws on biological and psychological processes.

To keep from becoming derailed by such external factors as higher egg and beef prices, extreme weather conditions across various parts of the country in the first quarter, and a changing labor landscape, among others, the industry continues to draw on its resilient nature as it keeps dutifully moving along.

From drawing our attention to the ignored but obvious, to making attractive points and arguments, to drawing sensationalist targets — he has reopened a debate on the foreign nature of the Premier League and its consequences for the national team's future achievements.

While we are on the topic of Fulham's tenacious nature, having fought hard for draws in their last four visits to Wigan in the league, we thought we better point out just why the Cottager are so resilient.

A run of three straight draws (0 - 0 at home to Sunderland; 2 - 2 away at West Brom and 0 - 0 at home to Blackburn) has thrown cold water over Arsenal's ambitions of becoming the 2010/2011 Premier League champions, with their latest setback — a 0 - 0 draw at home to a Blackburn Rovers outfit who previously had a tendency to ship a stack of goals on their travels — only further highlighting the Gunners» stumbling nature when it comes to title run - ins.

Family Drawing Night, Gratitude Alphabets, Nature Tables, and on and on.

Draw up a nature scavenger hunt for kids to complete with friends, take part in the rock - painting craze and allow kids to paint, hide and search for rocks with pals, or simply set up a sprinkler on a hot day.

If you need some pointers on how to draw an owl, I'd recommend this book, How to Draw a Tree, by the brilliant British illustrator Eloise Renouf — which has tips on how to draw owls as well as lots of other nifty things from natdraw an owl, I'd recommend this book, How to Draw a Tree, by the brilliant British illustrator Eloise Renouf — which has tips on how to draw owls as well as lots of other nifty things from natDraw a Tree, by the brilliant British illustrator Eloise Renouf — which has tips on how to draw owls as well as lots of other nifty things from natdraw owls as well as lots of other nifty things from nature.

Look for amphibians, draw owls, de-stress on a nature walk, learn digital photography, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend.

Because her science method relies on nature walks, it would seem that her method would require adaptation in order to accommodate instruction in sciences that can not be drawn out of natural observation.

Another fun activity to do in Spring is to create a nature journal to draw pictures of what they see on their walks.

Other Earth Day activities at Spring Brook Nature Center include sidewalk chalk drawing sessions for children and entertainment by folk singer Mark Dvorak from 12:30 until 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to bring picnic lunches and eat on the grounds of the center, which is operated by the Village of Itasca in cooperation with the Itasca School District and Itasca Park District.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Tieger Paul, and Barbara Barron - Tieger NURTURE BY NATURE: Understand Your Child's Personality Type — and Become a Better Parent Little Brown, 1997 The authors draw on their extensive knowledge of Myers - Briggs Personality Types to show parents how they can learn more about their children's unique personalities.

Of course, readers can then draw their own conclusions as to what it means about the nature of journalism in Westchester that News12, The Journal News, and FiOS1News have not only never reported on the car crash but have never even bothered to file a FOIL request with NRPD to obtain a copy of the police report about the car crash.

The speakers demonstrated that even though the multinational nature of the UK presents unique challenges there are national and international precursors that designers of a convention could draw on.

In a debate at the East Hampton Library last month, all three candidates were largely in sync on many of the issues, though Mr. Bragman, a political newcomer, made several efforts to criticize and draw a distinction between himself and Mr. Cohen, who is chairman of the town's nature preserve committee.

The drawing shows sine waves that resemble waves on the surface of water being reflected from two surfaces of a film of varying width, but that depiction of the wave nature of light is only a crude analogy.

The insights into the effects of humankind on land, nature, food security, water and climate have been drawn in four assessments on Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Central Asia and a global assessment on Land Degradation and restoration.

For career - seekers the article is a useful introduction to the nature of translational work, capturing well the field's profoundly interdisciplinary nature and detailing the skill sets it draws on.

My research drew on classic areas of psychology such as giftedness and expertise, following the steps of other researchers who have examined the developmental activities of the world's highest achievers across a range of domains from science to music to sport, sparking classic «nature versus nurture» debates.

Drawing on classics and history and philosophy of science, Lehoux explores what and how the Romans thought about their place in nature.

Based on a new model that draws from research in diverse fields including petrology, geodynamics, volcanology and geochemistry, the team's findings were published online this week in Nature Geoscience.

The United States used science and technology to great economic benefit after World War II and can continue to «master the innovation cycle» by drawing on the collaborative nature of millennials who started to come of age as the century turned, a leading physicist told a AAAS gathering recently.

Those videos of him on YouTube explaining ripples in the water and the sunlight reflecting on the ripples, they're just beautiful, loving explanations of nature that draw you in.

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.

The work is detailed in a paper in Nature Communications by fisheries researchers Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and it builds on a decade - long project that has drawn in hundreds of researchers from around the world.

That book, Beast and Man: The roots of human nature, drew on her studies of animal behaviour.

Woolley's book is really the prehistory of virtual reality, with a nod back at the Link aircraft simulator, a sideways glance at Gibson's cyberpunk, and a question or two about the nature of reality, drawing on my work and that of Paul Davies.

In Part 1 of this article the nature and validity of emergent constraints [1] on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) in GCMs were discussed, drawing mainly on the analysis and assessment of 19 such constraints in Caldwell et al. (2018), [2] who concluded that only four of them were credible.