Sentences with phrase «humans and nature lasted»

This relationship between humans and nature lasted for many centuries, until the Axial Period 1 introduced some radical changes.

Not exact matches

The hippy movement lasted for a season, and I think your concept of community will implode due to the fact that human nature is to have a sense of functional structure.

But Bach, astute student of the liturgy and of human nature, did not simply end the piece with the last words sung by the soprano.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

Last June Pope Benedict suggested that, in response to modernity's «prolonged crisis» and posing of «an «anthropological question»» Catholic thought must take account of modernity's «more exact understanding of human nature».

Here human nature was at home in the world for one last glorious moment, and then it was all over — the point of culmination was the eve of disintegration.

During the last twenty years, changes in family life and in church demographics have rekindled interest in Christian nurture and in new progressive theories about human nature.

The connection was somewhat tenuous, it veered away from strictly «religious» issues, and only in the last chapter of the book did I venture a few comments suggesting a more «intrinsic» connection between the Christian view of human existence and the nature of human life manifest in Western literature.

Politics is short - sighted, and any lasting victory for an ethical form of society requires that we nurture and develop theoretical insight into the foundations of human nature and ethics.

Again, traveling played an important role in the life of each one of these three grandseigneurs, yielding lasting fruits in literary works and contributing to the knowledge and understanding of the similarities and differences in human nature.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

Even those Christian values he wishes to uphold can only last and pass between the generations if they are grounded in a convincing and objective account of human nature.

Last May Pope Benedict called for an answer to this and our culture's «scepticism and relativism - or, in simpler, clearer words, the exclusion of the two sources that orient the human journey;... namely nature and revelation.»

In the pre-modern ages human consciousness was dominated by a feeling of helplessness in the face of all natural and supernatural forces, causing people to acknowledge their absolute dependence on divine help, whereas the modem age has been marked by a high degree of human self - confidence and the belief that humans can at last master the forces of nature, justifying an optimistic hope for the human earthly future.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

I think in ages past the family bed and shared care of a small village setting would have naturally gone that way, but the last century really did a lot to undo the human nature tendencies!

Last year in the journal Nature, physical anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz described a 55,000 - year - old human skull found in Manot Cave, near the Skhul and Qafzeh sites.

«Terrorism and human - caused disasters can have strong impacts on communities because of their uncertain and long - lasting nature, resulting in long - term stress and disruption,» Watson notes.

Particularly influential were last year's ruling in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Inc. that naturally occurring human genes can not be patented and the 2012 Mayo v. Prometheus decision, which invalidated a patent on a method of adjusting drug dosage using measures of blood metabolites because it relied on a «law of nature.»

The researchers, who published their work online November 5 in Nature, are now investigating just how long the improvement might last and how deep sleep affects memory — for some reason, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at about the same time that memory begins to decline.

During the last half of the 20th century, millions of indigenous people in Africa, South America and Asia were ousted from their homelands to establish nature sanctuaries free of humans.

Izpisua Belmonte and colleagues published work in the journal Nature last year reporting that they had been able to integrate human stem cells into early - stage mouse embryos so that the human stem cells began the first stages of differentiation — they appeared to begin the process of generating precursors of the body's various tissues and organs.

Three Emory scientists have signed a letter published last week in Nature and Science outlining proposed research on the H7N9 avian influenza virus. A strain of H7N9 transmitted from poultry to humans was responsible for 43 deaths in China earlier this year, but so far, evidence shows that the virus does not transmit easily from human to human.

The finding, detailed in the Aug. 23 issue of the journal Nature, suggests humans and gorillas last shared a common ancestor at least 10 million years ago.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

I am looking for some one that embraces true love passionately wants a long lasting relationship and has an absolute love for nature and animals and children.A person that understands love.A person that when it comes to life they embrace it and experience it will all there being.A person that can show love through there actions.A person that wants to experience life at it fullest.A person that can show compassion love and empathy for all human beings alike.If you are looking for a man that can express his feeling, which I can do in so many ways, then I am your choice.

Episodes included are: «Smith and Jones», «The Shakespeare Code», «Gridlock», «Daleks in Manhattan», «Evolution of the Daleks», «The Lazarus Experiment», «42», «Human Nature», «The Family of Blood», «Blink», «Utopia», «The Sound of Drums», «Last of the Timelords» and the 2006 Christmas special «The Runaway Bride», starring Catharine Tate.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — At last here is real humor, welling up from the heart and from human nature, instead of the crude physical comedy of Hollywood's summer specials.

With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear - eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a memorable and lasting work of fiction.

«People who think «anonymity» is «more authentic» forget that we are social creatures; we are less human when masked and isolate,» he wrote last year in response to the rather idealistic outlooks on human nature pushed by start - up VR companies.

The paintings Martinez Celaya created in the last two years continue his quest for alternative realm through otherworldly and ephemeral depictions of humans and nature.

This is the most ambitious of the works in Pascali's last series, Reconstructions of Nature — besides Bridge, it includes a human trap, jungle vines, and an animal skin all crafted of unlikely materials such as rubber and fake fur.

Curated by Caroline Picard, this exhibition is part of an on - going investigation that began with Field Static (The Co-Prosperity Sphere, 2012), Ghost Nature (Gallery 400 / La Box ENSA, 2014), and congealed last fall in a group show about the material of the human body, The New [New] Corpse (Sector 2337, 2014).

His multi-part installation «Third Lung», originally commissioned for the last year's Venice Biennale, explores human - nature relationships and revisits a spectrum of anthropomorphic, hybrid, and zoomorphic forms from the Mesoamerica in the pre - and late classical eras.

In the exhibition Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill, which consists of 97 drawings and a single painting, one room is dedicated to drawings of chaotic human bodies, one to nature drawings, and the last to the painting Det ensamma trädet (The Lonely Tree) from 1878.

«If you Lived Here You'd be Home,» Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on Hudson, NY, June 25 — Dec 11, 2011 «Black Swan: The Exhibition Regen Projects,» Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 — April 16, 2011 «American Exuberance,» Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011 - July 27, 2012 «America: Now + Here,» a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 — November 2011 «Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial),» September 17 — November 13, 2011 «We Will Live, We Will See,» Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7 — August 14, 2011 «The Bearden Project,» The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 — September 2, 2012 «HIDE / SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,» Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012 «Nothing in the World But Youth,» Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012 «The Bearden Project,» Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 — March 11, 2012 «Jean Genet,» Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 — October 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 — December 18, 2011 «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13 — July 4, 2011 «Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011 «Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists,» Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 — September 18, 2011 «ARTiculate: Links Between Visual and Verbal Expression,» Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 — February 26, 2011 «Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works,» Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19 — March 19, 2011 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28, 2011 «Distant Star / Estrella Distante,» An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011

RE # 44 & 45, I hope you're not making the contrarian argument that whatever GHGs humans emit are aborbed into nature, and it is only nature's GHGs that are up there in the atmosphere, or that somehow human emissions are absorbed first, and nature's emissions last.

Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth — how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity.

But, within the media coverage of greenhouse gases and climate that has accumulated over the last half century, there's also a broad body of work that has clearly described the science and its significance for human affairs and the wider nature world.

I posted a quick riff overnight on new research, published in Nature, that links human - driven global warming and rising instances of extreme precipitation in observed parts of the Northern Hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century.

True, true nature could care less and has the last say in any event no matter what us puny humans think about it.

THe only aspect of human nature the left can appeal to is self righteousness; and the self righteous can only go against his innate nature of greed for so long, hence the liberal democratic experiment, being against human nature, will not last much longer and is failing even now.

Sherlock matty; ok, if Ferdinand only means the last 160 years nature has been a net sink and there has been natural variation before I'll go with that but he still has 2 dominant unknowns in natural emissions and sinks; you can't deduce them from the increase or human emissions; and I may have missed his attitude towards Knorr which shows the airborne fraction of ACO2 constant; I must confess I have had my ups and downs with interpreting Knorr but I still think it shows that natural CO2, not ACO2, is contributing the bulk of the increase in CO2.

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

In yesterday's Washington Post, senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey echoed this theme, in a letter referring to a news article in last week's Post by noted journalist Juliet Eilperin, «Humans May Double the Risk of Heat Waves», describing a climate modeling study by climate scientist Peter Stott and collaborators that appeared in last week's Nature.

The snail, a symbol of nature created from recycled, artificial material, with a minimal carbon footprint, were chosen to convey three metaphors: the first relates to the critter carrying its home on its back, the second connects to hearing, since the spiral looks similar to the human ear, and the last refers to technology, with the symbol» @» (called a «snail» in Italian) ubiquitous in email communication.

In the last thirty years there's been a revolution in our scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that's also transformed our understanding of human nature itself.