Sentence examples for natural contemplation from inspiring English sources

This book provides a delightful insight into Deakin's inner world and will no doubt provoke many moments of natural contemplation when I'm out in the field.

Augustine's Neoplatonic account of knowledge is reserved for our restored or supernaturally assisted nature in its contemplation of God, or of the natural world in God.

The contemplation of natural history allows us to marvel at our place in the universe.

By degrees, the movie changes into a lengthy contemplation of natural phenomena, all suggestive of violent flux — churning water, perturbable gases, bits of the galaxy spun into seeming specks, the sun seen close up as a seething landscape of flame.

For the first half-hour or so it works a little too hard, goosing (sorry!) the proceedings with jaunty music, smirky comedy and action sequences that turn the contemplation of natural beauty into a frenzied stampede of oddballs.

In the first conversation he argued that the contemplation of natural beauty has a calming and moderating influence on our passions.

To quote philosopher Arthur Eddington (1927), "…the contemplation in natural science of a wider domain than the actual leads to a far better understanding of the actual".

"Nature offers us two sorts of subjects of external contemplation of the natural world objects and their mutual actions," as Herschel (1830) put it.

In his case contemplation of the natural world does the job; his final chapter is an ode to the perspective-altering discoveries of modern physics.

Redemption is also often sought in contemplation of the natural world, the cosmos, and re-evaluations of our sense of self and spirit.

Origen's triad was developed by the 4th-century monastic Evagrius Ponticus, who distinguished between praktiki (ascetic struggle), physiki (contemplation of the natural order), and theologia (theology as contemplation of God).