Sentences with phrase «take from nature»

In particular we analyzed a data set from Global Footprint Network — a research group dedicated to helping leaders in government and finance quantify how much people take from nature and how much nature has to give.

What people take from nature — water, food, timber, inspiration, relaxation — are so abundant, it seems self - evident.

«Probiotics are bacteria that we've taken from nature and put in a pill, saying «these bacteria seem to have some beneficial effects,»» said Jeff Tabor of Rice University in an interview with Business Insider.

The conclusions of the NEA have been reflected in the white paper with a provision for an annual statement of green accounts, highlighting where the economy has taken from nature and where it has invested.

For McGowan, artefacts are just as much a part of his toolbox of examples as those taken from nature, and are often more useful, being simpler.

There are five yamas — Satya (truthfulless), Ahimsa (non-violence, not hurting other beings physically or mentally), asteya (non-stealing), aparigraha (non — collecting, taking from nature only what one needs and not accumulating beyond ones needs) and brahmacharya (a balanced sexual life, essentially means control over your senses and living without over-indulgence.

I mean — I mean, we — we've taken it from nature and we've kind of hybridized it, and things like that, that [stutters] a lot — a lot of times the recreational one is much higher THC than what we find in nature.

Taken From Nature Peterborough Museum Ontario, Canada Reflections on Monet Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA

In his London studio, Wyrebek deliberately distorts images taken from nature, expanding occurrences of digital slippage until the original image becomes almost indiscernible.

Swarming with samples of images taken from nature documentaries and a variety of animations, the screensaver - like video combines platypus fins, palm - tree fronds, American flags, and cartoonish waves in collaged, 30 - second loops.

It is not he who is creating the form, but the form is taken from the nature, so again, it's not from his intentions.

Newman was searching for an art form which was more eternal than something taken from nature, which might date or deteriorate.

Her subjects — taken from nature — are painstakingly rendered with multiple layers of transparent glazes, resulting in surfaces that are spacious and immaterial.

A slow work process leads to Konstantin Déry's paintings, and with their intricate motifs taken from nature, the viewer is invited to take them in slowly.

In this and other activities, Newman was searching for an art form which was more eternal than something taken from nature, which might date or deteriorate.

A new one on his list is «Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature,» by the inimitable Vaclav Smil, a master analyst of global trends and risks who is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba.

It is a basic factor with water, air, and earth Unlike air, earth, and water which are regenerated, non-renewable coal, gas and oil are taken from Nature's larder without possibility of renewal The world reserves are undoubtedly very large but the fact remains that they are a once and for all endowment which can not be increased ut only diminished.

To be clear, these are not GMOs (in fact that is part of the reason they are popular, from a regulatory perspective): they are mosquito strains taken from nature, transfected with bacteria that naturally infect other insect species, and then mass - reared before release, where they freely breed with the natural population which allows the bacterium to spread.

Also, search for whimsical character — antique rugs are playful, not schematic, and usually you will find elements taken from nature as inspiration in the motifs.

I just adore all of the inspiration you took from nature and just how calm and serene it all looks.

Here is a color scheme taken from nature using brown, blues and grays.

Not exact matches

They feature nature heavily, taking note from the science of biophilia, which helps boost productivity and creativity.

Certain actions are already second nature to you — from showering to brewing a pot of coffee — because you have developed neural pathways in your brain that take you through the steps.

It's in a parent's nature to want to protect your children from the slings and arrows of life, but take this too far and you'll do your precious offspring a huge disservice, warns mother of three Jen Brown.

But there could be a case where, by the letter of the law, taking these fees does change the nature of what that firm is doing from being an asset manager to a broker dealer,» McAndrews said.

Giving some a fairer share, of course, means taking a share away from others, and these Belgian academics certainly don't shy away from the redistributionist nature of their project.

More information on the nature of the discussion and considerations the Board took into account will be published in the minutes of the meeting, two weeks from yesterday.

Taken from a helicopter view, strong sales to close the previous year led analysts to ask this question: Is a sudden downturn evidence of a fresh trend, or just Mother Nature's latest cruel twist?March's results would, thankfully, point to the latter.

The major European equity markets have continued to take their lead from the US, despite the more subdued nature of the economic recovery in the euro zone.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

It takes its cue from laws of nature and believes these laws shouldn't be tampered with.

I won't give you the full quote but it talked about how church as part of active discipleship can make strangers seem less threatening, but how the pull of human nature keeps trying to take us away from that (ie strangers become more threatening).

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky feminist problem of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

In the primordial nature, taken in abstraction from acts of becoming... eternal objects have togetherness but not gradations of importance.»

John Dewey makes this point succinctly when he suggests (EN 229) that «Locke's simple idea is the classic Idea, Form, or Species dislodged from nature and compelled to take refuge in mind.»

I should answer that such an understanding of the way in which the compilation of the gospel narratives took place, and also of the nature of the material which they contain, delivers us in our preaching of the kerygma from much that was troublesome and confusing to an earlier generation.

Moreover, Jesus» correspondence to God's deepest nature (his «freedom which is love») allowed him his radical liberation from the «dead seriousness» of history, says Moltmann; the laughter of Easter reveals that life can indeed be taken playfully, 50

Otherwise what is to prevent a man from taking Camus» advice to contemplate nature and arriving at the conclusion that the survival of the fittest is most natural?

This creativity is itself an ultimate that can not be traced to a cause transcending itself with the exception of its formal determination which arises in the creature from God's «primordial nature» but which the creature again freely takes over.

God takes upon Himself a human nature so that he can communicate to us «the mystery hidden from endless ages».

@ lionly lamb, yeah I myself love to study and watch science but by nature the TV takes from our time for other things.

This has been the nature of Christianity from the beginning — taking any side of any argument and being able to argue it from their conflicted Bible — I book based on rehashed folklore.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

A developed argument about American exceptionalism and the nature of the American Founding would take us a long way toward understanding why we don't want religion to be pushed from the shared mainstream over to one side's shore.

In virtue of the first, knowing and feeling take their origins from the workings of basic nature.

Though it is not at all impossible that Aristotle took certain clues from the examination of subjective experience to guide him in his investigation of nature at large, what he clearly did not do was take the subjective experience as a model for the essential constitution of the basic entities of the universe.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

«Instead of fitting into a natural world as best they could — like every creature before — the human species consciously took control away from Mother Nature and into its own hands through a process we now refer to as the Agricultural revolution.»