Sentences with phrase «natural wildness»

Founded in 1939, the park's purpose is to preserve natural wildness, exotic trees and strange animals — not only jaguar but capybara (world's biggest rodent), tapir, deer, monkeys, coatis, wild pigs and anteaters.

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Secondly, according to environmental historians, the first campaigns to conserve natural resources and save wilderness occurred in the late nineteenth century (such as John Muir's Sierra Club to protect Yosemite in 1892), and a few people were writing on the subject before that, such as Henry Thoreau («in Wildness is the preservation of the world,» - from Walden).

Painters before Pollock, like Oscar Bluemner, had come to the New York region and found an eerie wildness in its natural surroundings.

This wildness that they depicted has long since been tamed and repackaged in the form of natural signifiers such as charm necklaces with antler and leaf pendants, faux wood wallpaper, Fiji water bottles with a vignette of a tropical beach, and fake rocks for hiding house keys.

Marked with Renaud's vigorous brushstrokes and psychedelic colors, this unique watercolor captures the wildness of his natural setting on a farm at the plateau du Bugey.