Sentence examples for metaphors of nature from inspiring English sources

There are multiple metaphors of nature and geology – icebergs, a canyon, a grotto – and the building stands in a sort of sunken lake, with a cascade of water descending into it.

For example, mining was prohibited in antiquity because it was thought to be "mining the earth's womb"; early Greek metaphors of nature as alive and "nurturing female" supported the view that mining was wrong.

He hails the passion of youth, illuminates us with the raw desolation of grief, and explores the state of man with intricate metaphors of nature.

Nowhere is this more evident than in his investment in metaphors of nature to explain how communities of practice work.

This was more than a matter of introducing nature imagery into his verse; it amounted to a fresh view of the organic relation between man and the natural world, and it culminated in metaphors of a wedding between nature and the human mind, and beyond that, in the sweeping metaphor of nature as emblematic of the mind of God, a mind that "feeds upon infinity" and "broods over the dark abyss".

There are two main senses of 'mechanism', both deriving from the metaphor of nature as a machine.

This was part of a larger transition in world views (the rise of the mechanical philosophy) that continued into the 17th century, as the traditional metaphor of nature as organism was replaced by the nature as machine metaphor.