Sentences with phrase «metaphors of organic life»
Throughout the book Hawken draws on images and metaphors of organic life.
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(11) The mechanistic metaphor causes Westerners to regard cultures that live on the basis of organic metaphors as «ignorant and confused.»
In the metaphor of organic process, the pattern and meaning of life is understood in terms of birth, growth, and decay.
8 «The metaphor of a war of nature», Keith Ward writes, «here gives way to a different metaphor: that of a developing emergent whole, with increasingly complex and beautiful co-adaptedness among organic life - forms, and which pictures nature as expressing a continuous growth in harmonious complexity.»