In an earlier post, I shared how I decorated for winter using neutral accents and
elements from nature.
You have beautifully shown how simple
elements from nature can make a stunning table centerpiece.
A cozy sitting room off the foyer was decorated with
elements from nature.
Natura, l in that lots of
elements from nature are used and nothing is over-done.
Projects using
elements from nature are some of my favourites because they're usually free and readily accessible.
You can pile it high with all of the best
elements from nature and give it the opportunity to really stand out in a room that is predominantly white like Courteny from French Country Cottage did with her fall mantel.
They're repurposing or recycling used items for home accents and bringing in more
elements from nature, such as putting twigs in a vase.
The dress and
its elements from nature are central to the meaning of each work with the photographs requiring a team of assistants in order to create.
She weaves landscape, flora, and color into a complex, highly charged and organic whole using such materials as steel, paper, fiberglass, and foam as well as salvaged materials and
elements from nature, especially trees.
This can remind us of certain aspects of Land Art, for instance the way Robert Smithson explored nature, either by intervening in topographical segments, or by showcasing
elements from nature in gallery spaces.
In this series, «body prints» or photograms of life size figures, often children, are combined with
elements from nature to create both color and monochromatic works.
Adding
elements from nature is always a must!
She takes
elements from nature such as moss and tree clipping and ties them in with the rest of her decor.
I don't know about you, but I love to get creative in the fall by using
elements from nature's bounty!
I really like adding
elements from nature to my tablescapes.
Not exact matches
She was usually nude and almost always seen
from behind, engaging with
nature, animals, birds, water, fish, the
elements, but always essentially with herself.
This can be done
from many points of view, but I have suggested above that the crucial attack is that which accepts the same data and then shows that the argument does not exclude the presence of contingent
elements in God's total
nature.
After translating and presenting the famous passage
from Ûisang's work, Ocean Seal, Odin culls
from it the principal descriptive
elements of «harmonization,» «non-obstruction,» «interpenetration,» «mutual identification,» «all is one and one is all,» «interfusion,» «mutual containedness, etc., to depict the
nature of dharmadhatu (p. 66).
Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative
nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the
element of indirectness, of being one step removed
from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms
Sorry peeps, but the telling of one story to next will almost always change
from person to person; some
elements will disappear and others will be added to fix the
nature of the storyteller.
In order to allow for this quality in
nature we must be prepared to envision its constituent
elements as themselves units of perception or «feeling», that is, as having rudiments of mentality as we know it
from our own experience.
The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain... but there can be no doubt as to what
elements in the record have evoked a response
from all that is best in human
nature.
Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three
elements - a) the desacralisation of
nature which produced a
nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them
from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.
Further, that these additional
elements in a complete actual occasion are
elements in the emergent value indicates that emergent value is also found in the events in
nature apart
from this added richness.
Second, each moment of our lives makes its positive or negative contribution to God immediately upon its occurrence, as well as through the cumulative reality we call the «I.» Third, since God's consequent
nature «passes back into the temporal world and qualifies this world, «157 our lives, being
elements in God, also «reach back to influence the world» even apart
from our direct social immortality.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 88) Whitehead further comments that God's «primordial
nature directs such perspectives of objectification that each novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such
elements as it can to a realization in God free
from inhibitions of intensity by reason of discordance.»
In seeking to develop a theology of
nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images
from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the
elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.
There is no suggestion that the soul is some kind of supernatural
element which in some way marks off man
from nature and provides a special point of contact for divine activity.
ready for Him to fill, whence His Spirit can radiate through all the centuries and all beings; and because of the genetic links running through all the levels of Time and Space between the
elements of a convergent world, the Christ - influence, far
from being restricted to the mysterious zones of «grace», spreads and penetrates throughout the entire mass of
Nature in movement.
What we then see is a flood of sympathetic forces, spreading
from the heart of the system, which transforms the whole
nature of the phenomenon: sympathy in the first place (an act of quasi-adoration) on the part of all the
elements gathered together for the general impulse that carries them along; and also the sympathy (this time fraternal) of each separate
element for all that is most unique and incommunicable in each of the co-
elements with which it converges in the unity, not only of a single act of vision but of a single living subject.
Wherever a living faith exists culture will be profoundly modified by that faith, but culture
from its very
nature will always include some
elements which are hostile to faith.
Because a mother - figure of her
nature and the defining
element of the womb, the vessel of life, bespeaks a determination, and a prompting
from another,
from one outside.
But there can be no doubt as to what
elements in the record have evoked a response
from all that is best in human
nature: the mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
Science does this by excluding
from its consideration all subjective
elements of
nature, mind, and conscious feeling.
But there can be no doubt as to what
elements in the record have evoked a response
from all that is best in human
nature.
This recognition of the politicised
nature of identity will be of assistance in the attempt to understand the characteristic of the hyphen as something which is not isolated but as an entity which has the power to draw together
elements which come
from the living past, while being informed about the machinations of the present, and anticipating an uncertain future.
My own interpretation of Whitehead takes account of two distinctive functions in the consequent
nature: one of memory in which the entire past is preserved as an object of vivid immediacy, and the other of future envisagement which includes only those
elements of the past which contribute to and do not derogate
from the creative advance toward higher perfections.
The contextual
nature of language leads Whitehead to conclude that there are «no brute, self - contained matters of fact, capable of being understood apart
from interpretation as an
element of a system» (PR 14).
An essential
element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away
from «actions over against
nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the aesthetic value of experience.
About the latter, he writes that» [t] his
element in God's
nature inherits
from the temporal counterpart according to the same principle as m the temporal world the future inherits
from the past» (Process 350).
In the same way in dealing with the clash between permanent
elements of human
nature, it is well to map our history on a large scale, and to disengage ourselves
from our immediate absorption in the present conflicts.
As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential
elements that are missing
from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful
nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.
This reaction is of a mixed character, including
elements of emotion derived
from our lower
natures.
(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 31) This goal of elucidation is apparent when he says that rational religion's aim is to make it «the central
element in a coherent ordering of life... in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 30) Religion's final product is the provision of «a meaning, in terms of value, for our own existence, a meaning which flows
from the
nature of things.»
We understand the
nature of this literature and recall again that it employs and combines
elements from several sources; one strand, for example, identified the reality behind the vision as an angel, the authorized representative of the Lord (3:2); another strand speaks of the Lord himself (vs. 4).
Here, in contrast, the externality of
nature follows merely
from the fact of the relation of extension that holds between events, without there being required the
element of judgment.
About the subjective aim of God's consequent
nature Whitehead says: «His primordial
nature directs such perspectives of objectification [in his consequent
nature] that each novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such
elements as it can to a realization in God free
from inhibitions of intensity by reason of discordance» (PR 88, italics added).
Although Whitehead warned against «the merest hint of dogmatic certainty» (PR xiv), he also endeavored «to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas» (PR 3; emphasis added), and at least some of the
elements of his system Whitehead himself called «categoreal conditions which flow
from the final
nature of things» (PR 222).
This
element in God's
nature inherits
from the temporal counterpart according to the same principle as in the temporal world the future [present] inherits
from the past.
«A chic and innovative way to keep your handbag clean and protected
from mother
nature's
elements.»