Sentences with phrase «earth as the stewards»

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He believes firmly that humans should fit into nature without upsetting it, but at the same time believes we should manage it scientifically, as good stewards of the earth.

Let us remind ourselves that «the earth is the Lord's» and we are at most only stewards of the soil as well as all our earthly possessions to use them as entrusted to us by the Creator for our temporal and above all our eternal good.

It's as though both men were implying that, yes, the earth is good, but you must use it well, be a good steward over it.

Humanity has been given a commission to act as «accountable stewards of the whole earth and as bold advocates for fairness and freedom in the human community.»

mantra by showing that by syncing up with other members of your community, you can magnify your power as a steward of the earth.

Russell Crowe is Noah as God's moral man, the last of the faithful who lives his life as Earth's steward.

It will allow students to discover the relevance of this letter to their own lives as stewards of the earth.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

Rather than representing yet another sign of human hubris, this name change would stress the enormity of humanity's responsibility as stewards of the Earth.

The majority of Oregon winemakers see themselves as stewards of the land; after all, they derive their livelihood from the fruits of the earth.

So yes, we should definitely live as lightly as we can on this lovely planet, conserve our water and our topsoil, manage our fisheries properly, and in general act as wise stewards for this marvellous earth.

Before he published his first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, Steward Brand lobbied NASA to release the first snapshots of the Earth as seen from the moon, according to Wikipedia.

(In many ways it has become intertwined with actual religion, as the Christian Right has taken up the banner to cease being good stewards of the Earth.)

«Conservatives who are religious have this mind - set about being good stewards of the earth, to protect God's creation, and that is very compatible with green energy and conservation and other ideas that are usually classified as liberal,» Nail says.»

And as stewards of God's creation we must take our roles on saving mother earth.

(Santorum has also said, «We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.»)

He mentioned that Muslims view themselves as stewards of the earth.