Sentences with phrase «nature at first hand»

Loves to hike and enjoy nature at first hand.

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One can ask that question standing on the edge of Yosemite Valley, as naturalist John Muir did, or standing in awe on the rim of the Grand Canyon and reaching out for the hand of someone next to you as you look at — as the first episode of my series The National Parks describes it — «the scripture of nature.»

He had enjoyed excellent health until the age of 41, at the end of his first voyage to the New World.The nature of his illness is only partially known but seems to have involved an intermittent, though relentlessly progressive, arthritis that initially affected his legs more than his arms or hands.

She loves children and teaches religious education to first and second graders, and enjoys spending time in nature, passing her free moments at the park with a good book in hand.

Let me explain, I had my eye on the Velvet Lottie beforehand but kept turning it down due to the nature of the fabric; however, I don't regret buying the leather first hand but will most definitely be going back to purchase this at a later date.

And while the narrative eventually details the recruits» experiences during the war, director Stanley Kubrick offers up a first half devoted to the aforementioned characters» punishing treatment at the hands of R. Lee Ermey's hard - nosed drill sergeant - with the decidedly engrossing nature of this stretch heightened by Ermey's thoroughly captivating performance.

The nature watch hut allows children to get up close and personal with nature and wildlife and to observe it at first hand without causing a major disturbance.

Experience the physical, mental, and social health benefits of nature first - hand when you join Healthy Parks Healthy People: Bay Area and the Institute at the Golden Gate in celebrating the second annual Park Prescription Day on Sunday, April 23.

If you're keen to take a look first hand at Drunk on Nectar head over to the steam store and for less than ten measly pounds you can be one with nature.

At first, seeing a Ravenii as the approach and then start destroying a town looks great and I even felt my hands starting to sweat when I managed to bring down my first few, but then, the realization started to kick in that there is a very repetitive nature to all of this as well.

When dealing with an artist as subtle as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.

In a 2006 catalogue essay for Between Transparency and the Invisible, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, art curator and critic Robert Storr writes, «The novelty of her idea of drawing without paper can not be overstated... while seeming at first glance to have removed only paper from the process of drawing, she also removed what in the context of gesturalism has been called the mind of the hand, thereby eliminating the gestural drawing's implicit author and subject... the implications of which extend beyond sculpture per se into the realms of nature and science.»

Landscape in Turkey or the Canary Islands that was at first perceived as «untamed nature» turns out to be a civilized landscape — attesting to the intervention of human hands.