Sentences with phrase «of connection to nature»

The lack of connection to nature is staggering and very tragic.

Gorky's time at Crooked Run Farm marked a profound reawakening of his connection to nature.

During these troubling times, Wheat's exhibition becomes a hopeful rumination on the garden as a symbol of our connection to nature and its role in generating and nourishing life.

«All the way along the top surface of that continuum you've got these different models - whether it be a half hour, or an indoor / outdoor program, or a nature preschool... so they're all along the top in varying degrees of connection to nature.

Obviously, as your mental focus improves and your nervous system calms down — you will notice a greater sense of connection to nature and spirit.

They're a point of connection to nature and the outside world and our native wildlife.»

«As mammals, we have a sort of sixth sense, some sort of connection to nature, and the weather influences how we feel and how we think,» Patel says.

Not exact matches

«There's vacant land, no gathering space, no connection to nature,» says Donald Carter, director of Carnegie Mellon's Remaking Cities Institute, who has advised Hsieh on his redevelopment plans.

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Starbucks also succeeds at fostering an emotional connection with customers, due in large part to the emotional connection most people have with coffee — drinking it with friends, cozying up to a hot drink in the winter time and enjoying the inherent social nature of «going out for coffee.»

Law - enforcement agencies continue to connect local gangs to cartels, even as the nature of those connections remains unclear, according to the National Gang Intelligence Center's 2015 report.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

They have an intuitive facility for connection; a second - nature command of digital, mobile and social; and a healthy aversion to cumbersome structures.

According to documents released on Oct. 30, 2017, in an interview conducted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, Papadopoulos misrepresented the timing of conversations with an individual known to be substantially connected to Russian government officials, his knowledge of the individual's Russian connections and the nature of his interactions with a female Russian national.

Joshua joins Charlie Rose to discuss the power of artificial intelligence, the future of billion - user platforms like Linkedin, and the power of the network and connection in forever altering the nature of work and culture.

Da Vinci's curiosity and deep study led to an intuitive feel for nature... «because of his intuitive feel for the unity of nature, his mind and eye and pen darted across disciplines, sensing connections.»

The notion of the human individual as a rational, self - legislating being has been challenged as an affront to the human connection both with history and with nature.

And while it probably never works to overconfidently inform atheist friends that the serenity they feel in nature or the rapture they experience listening to music is the specific product of a specific God, we can at least embrace such experiences as points of connection.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquTo grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.&raquto be «premodern.»

Female imagery has also functioned to create and sustain a vital and sensitive relationship to the world of nature (especially in connection with the archaic Earth Goddess imagery).

Here, we do not wont to hold that God must reveal itself ad extra, but that the internal reference of God to everything that is not God is of a relational type, i.e., essential for world events and their nexic connections beyond the difference of God's «nature» and «will.»

Maybe even some sense of connection with nature, for they've been advertised as a way to commune with creation.

These conceptualizations may be a convenient tool for investigating nature, but Mays questions «whether Whitehead's account of «metaphysical necessity,» or «the necessary connections within the flux,» refers to anything more than this conceptual superstructure» (PW 100/105).

The worldview suggested by a process Christian theology can not be considered adequate to the «facts,» let alone illuminating of them, until the connection between «science» and the materialistic view of nature is broken.

Correspondence, in the sense specified, is the nature of truth, the meaning of truth; yet the test of truth that we most frequently employ in connection with the past is the test of coherence: historians and archeologists have nothing available to them that is not given in the present — this book, the reliability of which must be evaluated; this artifact, the significance of which must be construed — and coherence is the final test of their theories about the past built up from the givens of the present.

It brings to their perception in down - to - earth fashion the close connection between the work of nature and divine activity.

Being in a state of connection with nature should not stop us from carrying out our role as predator, but instead teach us what it means to be an appropriate predator, one that contributes to the proper functioning of the biotic pyramid.

The «nature parables» testify to a close connection between the way in which the process of nature works and the divine rule unfolds.

What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

Yet another ruse is to admit that sex belongs with marriage but to fudge the nature of the connection.

In its attempt to develop a theology of nature, recover suppressed traditions, and in seeing a profound connection between the traditional Western denigration of the non-human natural world, process thought has much in common with feminist theology.

The power of nature — and of women — to give and withhold life epitomizes the inescapable connection between the two and thus the necessary relationship of justice and ecological issues.

Human beings have lost that because we educated ourselves; define ourselves that we lost our connection to the energy and forces of Mother Nature.

Of course, this one - dimensional personal inheritance from occasion to occasion in the psyche provides no analogical basis for understanding the many - dimensional connections in nature, in which spatial as well as temporal relations are involved.

These biblical stories, while not being accounts of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection with actuality which stories of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the creation story is true only if God is in fact the Creator of the heavens and the earth and of man in his image, and the story of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated from God and thus actually falling short of the glory of his own true nature and destiny.

They are clearly different from those related to Objective A, since there has been a qualitative change in the nature of its causal connections.

One of the most valuable theoretical approaches for understanding the connection between the content of a specific program and the nature of the audience it attracts is that of the uses - and - gratifications approach to mass - communication effect.

Whitehead's connection with his idealist predecessors in the British tradition is easy enough to see, for he too defines his own problematic in the general terms of a nature - spirit dichotomy (SMW 119, 194).

When such a nature - god departed from his fixed and routine functions into the unpredictable conduct of personal relationship, when further he made this connection permanent, attaching himself to the fortunes of a people, then he became a god of history.

All of the axial religions, in fact, maintained some connection to nature's rhythms and cycles.

In other words, Suchocki's reasoning goes as follows: if God's primordial nature is to be effective for an actual situation, then a detection of that actual situation is necessary as well as a connection between God's conceptual valuation and that particular situation.

For all of Hendra's thoughtful reflection on issues as vast as the nature of faith and the ethical implications of satire, this reader, for one, felt that there were too many missed opportunities in this book» opportunities to make vital connections.

While I love all of the communication possibilities that our computers and the internet afford and have made wonderful connections with so many readers right here, I do find myself wondering if I'm getting «addicted» to the computer at the expense of my connection to my actual surroundings and nature.

She has a deep connection to nature and a daily ritual of foot baths, lemon water in the morning and making a nightly hot water bottle (in the cooler months) I've carried on these rituals... but don't seem to get the foot baths in as often as she does.

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While protecting the container's contents must be the prime role of beer packaging, it is the consumer's first physical connection with the product, and its label has a key role to play in conveying the nature of packaging's contents.

Gardening can be such a wonderful and calming thing and an important connection to nature when many of us live in towns and cities.

Again, this point illustrates the quiet and gentle nature of the Yin of the Moon which society in this day and time seems to have lost connection with.

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