Sentence examples for proper nature from inspiring English sources

It's taken until the last slot to get to a book that is by most definitions "proper nature writing" in the sense of sustained descriptive writing about the natural world affectionately satirised by Evelyn Waugh in Scoop with "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole".

In 1899, Wicken became the first proper nature reserve in Britain when it was protected by the National Trust.

What all sides seem to misunderstand, however, is the proper nature of the central bank's role in the economy.

The director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, acknowledged the agency had made a "mistake" in failing to establish the proper nature of the flights.

"There is now a full and permanent record by which the future may judge not only me but the proper nature of a confirmation proceeding," the 60-year-old judge said.

Some of the trees I can see across the lake Have begun to change, but it is as if the air Had entirely given itself over to summer, With the intention of denying its own proper nature.

The philosopher considers what belongs to their proper natures, while the believer considers only what is true of creatures insofar as they are related to God, for example, that they are created by God and are subject to him, and the like".

Might such thinking be based on a prejudiced view that parents who would go through a pregnancy and childbirth requiring concealment from others are good-for-nothings and lack proper human nature, and therefore easily dispose of their own child?

So he keeps on trying to be proper, while his nature marches the other way.

The school there packs 200 boys into a medieval castle that lacks heat and proper shelter from nature's elements.

These principles have been analysed in the discussion of the movements of animals, for the reason that they are proper to animal nature.