In the six years since that evening, we have moved back to New York, weathered ups and downs in each of our incomes, bought a home, married and are now expecting our first child: traditional steps in the human pursuit of permanence, if not in traditional order.
But at human timescales the permanence of society its rigidity is in many ways more similar to that of the pre-industrial era than the relatively recent past.Growth is important for lots of reasons, but it is important for Mr Piketty's purposes because it governs the length of the shadow cast by the past on the present.
He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws.
Eight sentinel areas were identified for continuous monitoring of immature Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, each one representing different degrees of forest cover, distances to neighbouring residential areas, and intensity of human commutation and permanence.
It serves to confirm the love human beings feel for permanence and their hatred for death: God is the most beloved as the everlasting cause of all beings.
Escalating water pollution causes not only the deterioration of water quality but it also compromises human wellbeing and the permanence of aquatic ecosystems, economic growth and community affluence (Milovanovic 2007).
Altering the ways we do things will not gain permanence until human consciousness changes.
Such a life-long permanence of human tissue has hitherto only been described for dental enamel.
A climate-responsive urban planning can provide optimal, comfortable thermal conditions not only for the permanence of humans in outdoor spaces but also reducing the need of air conditioning systems in buildings.
A longitudinal study found that carrion crows were able to reach the same level of object permanence as humans.
Props and sturdy bourgeois drapery and furniture proclaim the solidity and permanence of the human subjects, who look mortifyingly grim — social islands of brooding determination.
