Artists, tourists, anyone would be stunned into silence in the midst of so great and fabulous a landscape — unclimbed peaks, tongues of glaciers, nary
a sign of human presence as the cold winter begins to descend.
The sky is bright, the air is clean but there is
no sign of human presence.
For we're fortunate enough to experience all sorts of amazing adventures here in this vast, incredibly wondrous, wild place, where waterfalls gush and monstrous mountains rise steeply through the mists and there's
no sign of human presence anywhere (except ours).
Except for a remote farm or mine, there are
no signs of any human presence here.
Almost lost amidst writhing forms, strong color, and animated brushwork are two rustic mountain huts, the only
signs of human presence in an otherwise wild setting.
Not exact matches
The finite
human mind can not comprehend God's infinite mystery, but it can have some awareness
of God, reading the
signs of His
presence and activity in the world.
, Newman saw these assorted proto - revelations as themselves
signs, not just
of the
presence of God's logoi spermatikoi in all
of human society but also as pathmarkers for the Church's evangelizing pilgrimage through salvation history, a journey he describes in one
of the most magnificent passages in his Essay on Development:
It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly
of the World Council
of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental
sign of the unity
of all humanity, and also speaks
of the
presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution
of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment
of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny
of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate
human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces
of goodness and life, but also by the forces
of evil and death.
Capsaicin only inflames
human cells because heat - detecting proteins in our nerve endings called TRPV1 receptors become activated in the chemical's
presence, mistakenly interpreting capsaicin as a
sign of extreme heat, and sending the body's burn defenses into overdrive.
Type
of feeding (
human milk vs formula),
presence of infection and sepsis / meningitis (clinical
signs and positive cultures for pathogenic organisms), and potential confounding variables were abstracted from medical records.
My arrogance disappears, though, as I begin to treasure these marks as
signs of the artist's touch, a
human presence revealing the maker and her craft.