Peace and quiet are assuming their power again, asserting nature's qualities over the noise of the world.
Naturalists simply assert that nature is reality, the whole of it.
A day after making history by becoming the first pope to address Congress, Francis for the first time asserted that nature – as well as humanity – had rights.
The paper also asserted that nature was an ideal business partner for humanity: a coral reef did the work of nurturing fish more economically than a fish farm did, and it was pretty to look at, too.
By asserting that nature has a value in and of itself, Francis is overturning centuries of theological interpretation that regarded the natural world with outright hostility — as a misery to be transcended and an "allurement" to be resisted.
We cannot assert that nature is, as a matter of objective fact, purposive for our cognitive faculties, but it is a condition of the exercise of reflecting judgment that we assume nature's purposiveness for our cognitive faculties.
Dawkins (1976, p. 2) is unwise and wrong to assert that '"nature red in tooth and claw" sums up our understanding admirably' and that 'a predominant quality to be expected in a successful gene is ruthless selfishness.
Crace frequently asserts the random nature of life and death, the blindness of chance: "Life is.
And the rustic songs that conclude the comedy — simple, profound tunes in which nature asserts its eternal cycles — eloquently signal that school is out forever.
The SNP proudly asserts the multicultural nature of modern Scotland with its MSPs taking the parliamentary oath in Urdu, Gaelic, Italian and English.
