Sentences with phrase «nature in human environments»

They both invoke the long tradition and highlight the opposition and fierceness of nature in human environments.

Not exact matches

It's human nature to want to spend time in a nice, clean environment.

The issue of the relation of the human life and the nature is not merely the question of how to deal with the natural environment but that of the total creation, which involves the justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.

The issue of the relation of human life and nature is not merely the question of how to deal with the natural environment but that of the total creation, which involves the justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.

At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.

As the destruction wrought by pollution and human disregard for nature increases, churches are beginning to explore what their role is in protecting the environment.

«Holloway suggests that the concept of environment is a helpful way in which to preserve the relevance of the subject without losing its realistic objectivity because a subject is inherently related to its environment whilst at the same time distinct from it... We would propose it as a sort of medium between... (the fairly uncritical) adoption of the post-modern subject and... «scholastic rationalism»... If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God... We can affrm that human nature is intrinsically ordered to God» (page 4).

There is the unjust exploitation of physical, chemical, biological, and zoological nature, the ecology in which human nature is embedded, by industrial and technocratic production processes of «megamachines» (L. Mumford) polluting and destroying environment after environment.

But it does seem clear to me that we need to begin with a vision of a world community (1) consisting of a population within the biological carrying capacity of the planet (2) organized politically and economically in ways that provide to all human beings equal access to the means of material fulfillment and (3) organized technologically in ways that (4) neither exhaust essential natural resources of earth nor (5) upset the delicate balances of nature which make the environment capable of supporting life.

So the division of the sexes in evolution leads to the development of the womb as the environment in which human nature is formed and fostered.

Yet conservation of nature at its heart is the notion that humans must reduce their demands on the environment in favor of other species.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

As you sort of hint at later in your article, the importance of value family, finding nature inspiring and wanting to preserve the environment are general human values.

Thirdly, in the world setting in which the protection of natural environment and organic processes of production and reproduction of life have become crucial for the continuation of human life itself, there is the felt need for a revival of the spirit of reverence for nature which you had preserved in your culture for ages.

Actually, our human nature is shaped in some significant part by the interaction of people in specific periods of time with specific cultural symbols and specific historic environments.

This entails that we encounter our new spiritual environment in a way that is material and corporeal because that is an inalienable dimension of our human nature.

His gospel entails sympathy, mercy, kindness, concern for the environment — in short, the whole bag of traditional Christian sentiments and causes applied to nature as well as to other human beings.

If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God, we can understand the autonomy of human nature without depicting grace and nature as in a «dualistic opposition» of the sort feared by OTWTL (p. 40).

The challenge may be delivered through physical conditions of race and environment, but the degree and nature of the human response can not be fully accounted for without in some way going behind these factors.

Producing plastic is extremely bad for the environment and a lot of chemicals and toxins are released in the nature polluting our waters, harming both the wildlife, sealife and us humans.

But the older sites» current cultural and technological irrelevance hints at the ephemeral nature of internet domination: in an environment as tumultuous as this one and as driven by the fickle human desire for the new and shiny, no hegemony is eternal.

Introduction to issue of Human Ecology that focuses on the interrelated nature of crisis in human and environmental systems and argues that the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental human rHuman Ecology that focuses on the interrelated nature of crisis in human and environmental systems and argues that the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental human rhuman and environmental systems and argues that the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental human rhuman right.

But another approach is to work from the present backwards; to look at how humans make decisions regarding things like mating and parental care; to model, from an adaptive standpoint, the decision making that humans make in contemporary environments; and to try to get a fix on the nature of reasoning involved.

Wright is careful to include both genes and environment in his account of human nature.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of our planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

Mommy Footprint is my journey of finding creative ways to engage children in nature and how to avoid chemicals I believe are harmful to the environment and human health.

To start off, I'm grateful for: mine, Zoey, and family's good health, a peaceful environment, rest, books to read, the space to meditate and take care of myself, a rewarding and stimulating job, friends that have re-entered my life, nature, art all around me, good people in my life who are non-judgemental, respectful and amazing human beings, the local farmer's market, facials / therapeutic services, living in a free country, access to nourishing meals, and opportunities.

Canada About Blog WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by: • conserving the world's biological diversity.

In the realm of science - fiction, exploring our own socio - political environment through the lens of a foreign or futuristic society is commonplace; however, exploring merely human nature and philosophical questions of life is less common, at least as a stand - alone theme.

Ideas should also lead to enjoyment and satisfaction in being able to answer or find answers to the kinds of questions that people ask about themselves and the natural world, and have cultural significance reflecting achievements in the history of science, inspiration from the study of nature and the impacts of human activity on the environment.

Logically, its supporters should be those who firmly believe that we should focus our efforts on repairing the characters of children rather than on transforming the environments in which they learn, those who assume the worst about human nature, those who are more committed to preserving than to changing our society, those who favor such values as obedience to authority, and those who define learning as the process of swallowing whole a set of preexisting truths.

Our virtual shelves are loaded with books about the human - animal bond, animal husbandry, man's place in nature, and the underlying historical, political, and social traditions that impact humans, animals, and the environment.

I am very grateful for this opportunity to share that experience with you, combined with my vision of yoga as it was developed over 5,000 years ago — yoga practiced in astounding beauty, in the natural environment with all its elements, as a means for humans to come to realize their true selves and nature and place within the infinite universe.

Their past critically acclaimed series of works, such as Mt. Fuji, in Nature, Liulitun, and Tsumari Story focus on the beauty of the human body in nature and the urban enviroNature, Liulitun, and Tsumari Story focus on the beauty of the human body in nature and the urban environature and the urban environment.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

This sculpture, like so many other works by Dion, investigates what happens to animals as they adapt to and thrive in our newly developed urban ecosystems, and when human environments intersect with nature.

Office Plants illustrates the irony of the human tendency to replicate nature in artificial forms in order to maintain a connection to the environment.

San Francisco — based photographer Lucas Foglia tackles the relationship between people and the environment in his most recent project, Human Nature.

Living primarily in urban western cultures I seek to create environments incorporating nature and the human form as an opportunity to engage, interpret and learn from the act and outcome of creating.»

In his new work, the artist mirrors natural processes themselves, drawing increasingly on the tension between the organic and the built environment, between the human desire for order and nature's drive to reproduce.

With the human brain being the most complex structure existing in the known universe, we have been given the ability to manipulate the environment as we please and ultimately bend nature itself to our insatiable needs.

In this exhibition, Hentschlager creates an immersive environment of sight and sound reflecting on the nature of human perception and the accelerated impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.

Known as one of Wales» most significant contemporary artists, Helen Sear continues to explore sensory ideas and expressions, vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience with particular reference to the human and animal body and her immediate environment in rural Wales and France.

Human Nature, organized and curated by Kelly Sicat, director of programs at Montalvo, is part of Montalvo's 18 - month long thematic program Natural and Creative Capital, which explores issues of sustainability in our natural and creative environments.

He explained that the flower paintings, and a frozen garden installation he made for the Prada Foundation in 2000, had also explored the environment and humans» relationship with nature.

A human ecology that is healthy in terms of ethical virtues contributes to the achievement of sustainable nature and a balanced environment.

Human beings do possess a unique higher intelligence than our animal counterparts; this is gifted to us by nature, for use toward our own preservation and (dare I say, evolution)-- but only in harmony with our environment.

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