Taylor's skillfully crafted sculptures not only provide reprieve for besieged coral reefs, but also are reminiscent of a kind
of lost civilization of grace and beauty that can be rediscovered, if we choose — a profound alchemy where human intervention is transformed from blight to life.
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery
of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen, details the 1839 journey of two explorers, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who uncovered and documented what would come to be known as the ruins of the Maya civilization.
Not exact matches
If something catastrophic happens to Earth, we
lose billions
of years
of evolution and thousands
of years
of advanced human
civilization.
His was not the carping
of the exile who despises what he has left; it was the sharp, penetrating, and ultimately compassionate (because true) critique
of one who mourned the catastrophic condition
of contemporary Arab
civilization, the hijacking
of Arab politics by self - serving dictators, virulent anti-Semites, and Islamist fanatics, and the untold lives warped or
lost in consequence.
The dawning
of the Age
of Aquarius is now in its sunset repose and the bright young things who seem to be cropping up now all over the place with new information from Fortescue and Ratzinger, may either be the professional mourners for a
lost civilization, or the sparks
of a looming golden age.
Without acknowledging that we are, in our virgin beginnings, the humble, barefooted recipients
of a grace and a call that are the foundation
of all we can ever hope to accomplish, our
civilization loses all perspective and our power inevitably corrupts us.
Western
civilization is not
lost beyond the possibility
of salvation, not yet irrevocably doomed to death, if we can find the right answer to the almost overwhelming challenge which the future offers to our time, in the form
of purposeful, vital and inspiring images
of the future.
First they
lose faith in the 6 - day creationist god, then in the bible - dictation god, then in the male - supremacy god, then in the european - supremacy / western -
civilization / colonialist god, then in the anti-gay god, then in the pro-war god, then in the American - exceptionalism / manifest - destiny god, then in the anti-palestinian god, then in the controller -
of - everything - that - happens god, then in the design - engineer god, then in the penal - substitutionary - atonement god, and so on.
The striving for success, security, and influence may be regarded as the
losing attempt to save life — an attempt in which contemporary
civilization, with its promise
of material abundance and
of power to control the conditions
of existence, is deeply involved.
In the great Western
civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each
of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself
losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.
If a wall
of separation is erected between religion and the state (and its schools), that wall will prove to be a tomb in which church, state, and schools will decay with a
civilization that has
lost its soul.
Never before has there been a
civilization that was scattered as the Jews were and their language
lost, come back together along with their language and reestablish their nation (all
of which is foretold in the Bible).
A converted church in a corrupt
civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism
of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs
of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus
of their faith; when faith
loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.
This book is about how we as Christians can live the gospel in a meaningful way in a world that has
lost all sense
of meaning:» In a
civilization which has
lost the meaning
of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to live» (p. 77).
He has built up a complex
civilization, but he may
lose it because, in his proud hour
of achievement, he has so largely
lost or never developed the inner resources that are needed to keep a possible boon from becoming a calamity.
Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The
Lost City
of Z doesn't just follow an epic story
of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic
civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.
It's a million miles, easy, from
civilization,
lost among stands
of white fir and cedar.
Perhaps a latter - day Charlton Heston, pursued by jackbooted apes on horseback, will stumble on the statue
of MJ that stood outside the United Center — right arm rising out
of the sand
of some beach, basketball held high, like Lady Liberty's lamp: The only relic remaining
of a long -
lost civilization.
A non-religious Jew born in the eastern lands
of the then Austro - Hungarian Empire, his numerous novels are a long elegy for a life and a
civilization lost.
So José Iriarte, an archaeologist at the University
of Exeter in the United Kingdom, has opted for drones to search for the region's
lost civilizations.
Impressed but still skeptical, the doubting Thomas professor demands proof
of his interlocutor's divine power, which Klaatu delivers henceforth by causing
civilization to stand still for an hour through the cessation
of all electrical transmissions (except those where lives would be
lost).
In my opinion, Hancock's idea is based entirely on negative evidence — what he thinks is wrong with the accepted archaeological timeline — and he offers no positive evidence
of this purported
lost civilization: no metal, no writing, no tools and not even pottery.
News
of this
lost civilization began leaking out in the 1970s, when archaeologists came to dig in the southern reaches
of the Soviet Union and in Afghanistan.
Unless such losses are stemmed, the kinds
of data needed to better understand the growth
of Mayan
civilization and to provide stronger lessons from the past will be irrevocably
lost.
The story
of that
lost civilization is just now being learned.
After the great fall from the cataclysm around 13,000 years ago humans fell into a dark age and much
of the
civilization knowledge was
lost.
An archaeologist searches for both treasures and trash — the signs
of our earliest ancestors, a
lost civilization or our recent past.
Trekking through the Amazonian jungle, I stumbled across an ancient training plan, written in hieroglyphics on the wall
of an temple from a long
lost civilization.
However, in the interest
of being intellectually honest, I need those who do subscribe to this idea to explain why those who are seemingly «metabolically damaged» (chronic dieters, numerous diseases
of civilization)
lose weight on very high - carbohydrate diets like the ones espoused by McDougal, Ornish, Esselstyn, Furman, Barnard, Graham, etc..»
The untold history, the knowledge
of the ages long gone,
lost civilizations, the occult, the hidden powers
of the human brain, the supernatural... — this all is
of great interest to me.
Remember this is an allegory not unlike Luis Buñuel's surreal masterwork «The Exterminating Angel,» in which the rich, unable to leave a party,
lose the thin veneer
of civilization.
To that end, the Daniels flirt a little too hard with going full indie - movie maudlin on our asses, the whimsy reaching critical levels when Hank and Manny, in their attempt to reconstruct the
civilization they've
lost, begin creating a dollhouse jungle society, like something out
of a Michel Gondry wet dream.
Throughout
Lost Planet 3, there are a number
of pretty on - the - nose corollaries drawn between current fears
of global warming and fossil fuel consumption and the game's background story
of the Earth's slowly collapsing
civilization.
This polished reboot covers all the bases for an adventure game - shipwreck,
lost civilization, hostile inhabitants, supernatural intrigue - and for a while, these well - worn elements work together because you're focused on the task
of mere survival.
A remnant is something that is left over, like scraps
of food after dinner or relics from a
civilization lost in history.
Perhaps inevitably, the author's unique manner
of prose, animal point -
of - view, and comments on violence and
civilization get
lost in favor
of a somewhat simple but plenty poignant human - driven story.
The
Lost City
of Z: Director James Gray turns the story
of real - life British explorer Percy Fawcett — and his repeatedly thwarted attempts to discover an advanced
civilization in the Amazon jungle — into a meditation not just on colonialism, but on an entire culture's inability to see past the assumptions built into labels.
9) «The
Lost City
of Z» Smart Rating: 87.83 Release date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Genre: Adventure, historical drama, biography Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller Description: At the dawn
of the 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett journeys into the Amazon, where he discovers evidence
of a previously unknown, advanced
civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
The
Lost City
of Z tells the true story
of famed British explorer Percy Fawcett, who, in 1925, ventured into the Amazon jungle in search
of a fabled
civilization and never returned.
The
Lost City
of Z recalls the true story
of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn
of the 20th century and discovers evidence
of a previously unknown, advanced
civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
It was the reaction
of many who, earlier this year, saw The
Lost City
of Z, James Gray's arty period epic about an early - 20th - century British explorer searching for a new
civilization in the Amazon.
Loosely adapted from David Grann's nonfiction book, James Gray's ambiguous and lyrically orchestrated historical epic turns the story
of the early 20th - century British explorer Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, in a revelatory performance) and his search for a
lost civilization in the wilds
of Brazil into a symphony
of mystery, obsession, and transcendence.
Following the
Lost model, Burke is stuck on an island
of civilization in the mountains, but the model breaks down when it becomes clear that there is nothing mystical about Wayward Pines.
Currently airing its second season on TNT on Sunday nights at 9 / 8c, the series showcases how Lourdes and the other survivors
of an alien invasion on Earth cope with
losing their families and
civilization as they know it.
For almost a decade, James Gray has been working on an adaptation
of David Grann «s bestselling book The
Lost City of Z, which tells the story of Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a man searching for a lost civilization in the Ama
Lost City
of Z, which tells the story
of Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a man searching for a
lost civilization in the Ama
lost civilization in the Amazon.
Each escape room has the following contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each
of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room Important Note: Each topic utilizes the same types
of puzzles American History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill
of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches
of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Declaration
of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦
Lost Colony
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I've always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled
of lost lands, Atlantis, and virtually reinvent aspects
of its
civilization.
It seems a secret society has taken an interest in her work
of deciphering the
lost language
of the ancient Pict
civilization, and it may just cost Skye her life.
A thousand years after our 21st century
civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope
of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a
lost world.
The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts
of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch
of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces
of early
civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets
of a magnificent
lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.