To think otherwise was self-destructive: The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance," she said, at the conclusion of Silent Spring, "born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man".
Nature has not made all things to suit the convenience of man, but differently and fortuitously.
In the last paragraph of "Silent Spring," Carson wrote, "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Even in the theatre, a fairly egalitarian place, most of the structures are in place for the convenience of men rather than women.
One, termed for convenience the man-brute view, stresses differences often to the point of denying similarities altogether and derives from the traditional religious accounts of the separate creations of humans and animals; the other, the evolutionary view, stresses both similarities and differences.
For one, the number of women in our field is increasing, which means the workplace norms that were created by and for the convenience of men are in flux.
Circumstances compel unity; for convenience' sake a man must be a whole.
Eight months after the murder, and just a half-mile from the convenience store, a man named Rondell Love slashed the throat of a woman named Chandra Conley, killing her.
She was cast in such varied parts as the neurotic title role of Birgit Cullberg's"Miss Julie and Carolinee, the melancholy heroine of Antony Tudor's "Jardin aux Lilas," who must enter into a marriage of convenience with a man she does not love.
