Sentences with phrase «web of life»

The other group sees human beings as part of the interconnected web of life, and it sees value in the whole rather than in its isolated parts.

This is amazing since he himself discovered the great web of life.

It means thinking less about «I, me, and mine» and more about how we are all interconnected in a great web of life.

On the Sandy, Marmot Dam blocked salmon and steelhead runs, changed the river's flows, and altered the whole web of life on the river.

Like John Cobb, Ruether argues that humans» special ability to view the whole web of life grants them profound responsibilities for other creatures but no privileges over them.

The word can't help but fail to do justice to the myriad species of plants and animals, the fecundity of the natural world, the complex web of life.

There is one world, one human family, one interrelated web of life woven on the spherical skin of the earth.

We are certain beyond a reasonable doubt, however, that the problem of human - caused climate change is real, serious, and immediate, and that this problem poses significant risks: to our ability to thrive and build a better future, to national security, to human health and food production, and to the interconnected web of living systems.

In other words, each person is sustained by the interdependent web of life.

It» s fear - mongering of the most contemptible kind, also encapsulated in his comment that «the very web of life is endangered by unprecedented extinctions» — but this follows the pattern of the IPCC.

«Understanding the coevolving web of life as a network: New study exploring how mutualistic species coevolve suggests rapid environmental change can destabilize networks of interacting species.»

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

In Theology in a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of life.

The human organism, too, formed in the course of this grand evolutionary beat, is co-evolving in a delicately balanced rhythm with the embracing web of life on this planet.

The cobbed webs of living one's Life is ever in need of renourishing and cleaning up the dustiness trails!

To do so, it reaches towards Asian wisdom traditions — an «Eastern pattern» that Lent calls «the harmonic web of life».

He registered the sun on the water and pondered the patterns of energy fueling the blooms of tiny marine plants that nourish an ever - expanding web of life.

The result is evocative and illuminating: an exuberant biography of a small patch of land and the miraculous web of life that it sustains.

The standards provide verification of good practices at deserving zoos and aquariums, and long - overdue assurances that the public can support them in good conscience, as those of us who love animals seek to enjoy and preserve the rich web of life essential to the survival of Mankind — and all the creatures of the Earth.

PAWS Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) Atlanta Pet Rescue Home for Life Animal Sanctuary Wisconsin Humane Society (Milwaukee, WI) SFSPCA (San Francisco, CA) Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter (East Hanover, NJ) Stray from the Heart, NYC Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (London, UK) Angels Among Us Pet Rescue (Atlanta, GA) Greyhound Rescue of West England Hong Kong Dog Rescue Web of Life Animal Outreach (Chesapeake, VA) Villalobos Rescue Center (New Orleans, LA)

I shared a restoration vision that included a great diversity of plants, providing all the threads that together create that unique web of life — and supporting hundreds of insects, rodents, birds and raptors, and those charismatic larger mammals.

The dramatic web of life - sized white ceramic detritus are delicately strung on cords which issue from the ceiling and are tied together at the base.

But when the intricate web of life collapses, we'll rediscover that we depended on something else to provide for our basic needs as well as our extravagant tastes.

WildEarth Guardians» four programs work to bring people, science, and the law together in defense of the American West's rivers, forests, deserts, grasslands, and the delicate web of life to which we are all inextricably linked.

Together the myriad cultures of the world make up a web of cultural life that envelops the planet and is as important to the well - being of the planet just as a biological web of life, which we know as the biosphere.

Unimaginable and irreparable decimation is being inflicted on the biosphere and the entire web of life by the ongoing climate modification SRM programs.

While there is concern about decimation of the complex web of life that is our soil, and the informational properties of plants and animal foods, eliminating pesticide exposure from your diet is a powerful step as evidenced by assessment studies.

And we need to cherish and protect all of the interrelated web of life on our home planet.»

«We are certain beyond a reasonable doubt... that the problem of human - caused climate change is real, serious, and immediate, and that this problem poses significant risks: to our ability to thrive and build a better future, to national security, to human health and food production, and to the interconnected web of living systems.»

Two principles I learned early in life have helped shape me significantly: the belief in the inherent worth and dignity of every person (which I joyfully extend to all beings), and the belief in the interdependent web of life, of which we are a part.

Military experts warn us our national security is threatened by massive waves of climate refugees destabilizing countries around the world, and scientists tell us the very web of life is endangered by unprecedented extinctions.

She is particularly interested in exploring NVC within the context of family, community, interdependence, and the whole web of life.

When we feel part of the web of life, we can find the capacity to nurture it.

By contrast «deep» environmentalism — that is, deep ecology — adopts a cooperative perspective, believing that human beings are inseparable from that web of life of which they are a part, and that other members of the web are equally as valuable as humans.

To the question of why we ought to value the web of life in the first place «no clear and persuasive answer to this more basic question has yet been given» (RNW 128).

In a recent volume of essays, Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence, edited by Pam McAlister (New Society, 1982), feminists in the peace movement struggle to find a higher synthesis between the denunciation of patriarchal violence, the advocacy of feminist militancy and a vision of a new humanism that could shape a world without war.

Cosmic teleology may be seen in the basic laws which evolutionary explanation assume and which made possible the glorious «web of life» of which Darwin so wonderfully speaks.

The web of life, as Joseph Sittler so aptly put it, is like a spider web: touch any part, and the entire web shimmers.

We both depend on the web of life for our own continued existence and in a special way we are responsible for it, for we alone know that life is interrelated and we alone know how to destroy it.

Our nuclear knowledge brings to the surface a fundamental fact about human existence: we are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

To understand this blueprint of creation puts a new spin on our understanding of our place in the field of limitless possibilities, allowing us to see our interconnectedness within the web of life.