Sentence examples for dominating nature from inspiring English sources

Well, he says, the film has a lot about the exploitation of Africa's natural resources by multinationals ("western cosmology seems to be more about dominating nature than working with it").

The era of dominating nature had ended, at least for bird watchers.

Aslan believes that these images do not represent actual animals but rather are "symbols meant to represent 'the other world' — the world beyond the material realm". As people formed agricultural societies, they began to see humans as dominating nature, and they envisioned gods who did likewise.

Evidently, these bionic experiments serve the development of machines (p 375), which, characterised by uniformity and refinement, are used for dominating nature (p 364f).

Conquering and dominating nature guides most commerce and development in the world.

You can pretend things are normal all you want, but at the end of the day you're just a selfish fuck that can't resist dominating nature and forcing it to live with you.

She notes that the ancient Greek philosophers debated man's inherent right to dominate nature, but thinkers quickly confused "our ability to alter natural conditions with proof that the very purpose of nature was to minister to our cause".

Humans, Carson argued, should not seek to dominate nature through chemistry, in the name of progress.

"There's no progressive arrow that dominates nature," Dr. Prum said.

They maintain that androcentrism as seen in traditional power-wielding patriarchal society is responsible for the striving to dominate nature.

Now we must use our reason to find a way in which we can live with nature, and not dominate nature.