Sentences with phrase «picture of nature»

How far do assumed pictures of the nature of «reason» and «human being» dictate the proposals?

I love taking pictures of nature... it's so inspiring.

In its notions of matter, space and time, the new physics gives us a fundamentally different picture of nature from the one we are accustomed to.

Such questions sit at the heart of our efforts to construct a rational picture of nature from our inconvenient vantage point.

Studies show even simply looking at quiet pictures of nature can reduce stress.

This factor is so powerful that even pictures of nature and nature and wildlife documentaries have this effect on us which is fascinating.

It is really cool to chill out in these natural pools while enjoying the beautiful architecture and pictures of nature around you.

I love photography and enjoy taking pictures of nature and normal objects from abnormal angles.

She continues, «So here, in the middle of midtown Manhattan, I approach the subject more as an opportunity to depict visual manifestations of physical forces: compression, subduction, morphogenesis, rather than pictures of nature in the traditional sense.

As a result we tend to carry around ridiculously outworn pictures of nature that resist not only teleological interpretations but even the insights of contemporary science.

But because the national science standards and the textbooks have nothing to say about the relationship between science and religion, students will assume that science is competent to provide a complete picture of nature — a claim deeply controversial for religious liberals as well as conservatives.

Piles of studies have found that being out in nature can slash stress and even speed healing after surgery, but some research also suggests that simply looking at pictures of nature can boost energy and vitality.

This provides an up - to - date picture of the nature and extent of incidents of antisemitism and discrimination in the Netherlands.

«Adults returning from wilderness backpacking vacations showed improved concentration afterward and more creativity (versus urban vacations), and research subjects who were shown pictures of nature (versus non-green urban settings) show boosted attention,» she noted in an email to Inc..

According to Judge Richard Posner, the very idea of natural law rests upon a premodern picture of nature that science has discredited.

For Whitehead himself comes to focus more on the problem of reconciling a «scientific» picture of nature dead, mechanical, devoid of quality, and the world of humanism that «science» dismisses as a wistful pathetic fallacy.

As more planets are discovered, astronomers will develop a much better picture of the nature of exoplanets which in turn will allow us to place our own solar system into a galactic context».

«The paired approach creates a more comprehensive picture of the nature of climate change and the effects of various policies to stem its consequences.»

Display nature imagery in your home, since simply looking at soothing pictures of nature has also been found to relieve stress.

Yesterday's post of the beauty of Boston in the early morning got me thinking that I tend to take a lot of pictures of nature while I'm out walking around and most of those shots never make it onto the blog.

«The stories feature mental pictures of nature scenes and encourage deep breathing and quiet reflection, telling children to «think about your heart» and «choose what colour your flower is» but not to talk, just to reflect.

Antonio Vivaldi's famous work «The Four Seasons» has an extra-musical idea, since the composer wanted to describe pictures of nature and people dur...

In another study, participants were asked to assume the role of magazine photo - editors, choosing among either appetite stimulating pictures of food or non-appetite stimulating pictures of nature.

Dedicated to black and white photography, this intimate exhibition introduced me to the photos of Masao Yamamoto whose small pictures of nature were a moment of serenity on an otherwise hectic night.

Taken together, the newly discovered schemas lead to the first clear and empirically based picture of the nature of healthy and unhealthy patterns of parenting and their links to positive and negative life patterns and the development of the healthy adult.

I love photography and I especially like taking pictures of nature.

In addition, we tend to carry around ridiculously outworn pictures of nature that resist not only teleological interpretations but even the insights of contemporary science.

Context Tom Siegfried Quantum mysteries dissolve if possibilities are realities Incorporating «potential» elements of reality in a complete picture of nature might resolve quantum mysteries (SN Online: 10/1/17).

This provides an up - to - date picture of the nature and extent of anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands.

This bias in newspaper report of injury creates a misleading picture of the nature of workplace injury which may not only result in inadequate safety measures but distort public perceptions of injured workers, particularly those whose injuries are «invisible».

I was collecting advertisement photographs that had pictures of nature in them, and I was aware of how those pictures worked toward generating a kind of non-specific nostalgic experience, where the specificity of the location, geographically or historically, is completely eradicated.

In fact, a study published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that something as simple as looking at pictures of nature can help people bounce back from stressful experiences more quickly.

However, I do think that the picture of nature, perception, causation, and religion tentatively outlined in this book is more consistent not only with experience and logic but also with science itself than is the questionable materialism that still hovers over modern speculation on matter, life and consciousness.

I have simply tried to offer an alternative to the picture of nature inscribed so vividly in modern scientific thinking — a picture that in principle leaves no openings in nature's soil for the seeding of divine purpose.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

Our picture of nature is not, even for us if we know what we are about, all that nature is.