Sentence examples for been lost to human from inspiring English sources

Worldwide, between 35 and 50% of all pristine mangrove forests have been lost to human activity such as irrigation and dams, overharvesting, clearing for agricultural land, infrastructure and settlement (Oswell 2015).

Since the Neolithic Revolution about 47% of the world's forests have been lost to human use.

The origins of slavery are lost to human memory.

Foraging habitat can also be lost to human activities such as the construction of ski resorts and other tourist development on former alpine meadows.

He recorded them so that "happenings will not be lost to human memory nor great and fantastic deeds … fade".

Something precious will have been lost to the human condition because our inner lives will no longer be ours alone.

The path of way, truth and life are lost to the human demand to see, put, thrust.

Rachelle Hollander, a philosopher who directs the center, said the new technologies were so powerful that "our saving grace, our inability to affect things at a planetary level, is being lost to us," as human-induced climate change is demonstrating.

But with the census discredited — a crude calculation by the 1890 census office subsequently indicated that the 1870 Census had undercounted the South's population by 1,260,078 (10 percent of the region's and 3 percent of the nation's population) — the opportunity for a more comprehensive examination of the war's human cost was lost to the political winds.

It was everything that the battlefield was not, and when her hair rubbed against the side of his face while they were dancing he was lost to her. "She made me a human being again".

It is estimated that more than half of the original wetlands in the word have been lost due to human activities (Mitsch 2005; Mitsch and Day 2006), therefore, effective protection and restoration for damaged and degraded wetlands are becoming more and more urgent (Bruland and Richardson 2005; Hopfensperger and others 2006; Orr and others 2007).