Sentence examples for transform nature from inspiring English sources
But apart from the many startling details, there is a larger theme running through the show, about how cultures transform nature, and how, in recent years, those transformations may have gone awry.
They transform nature into culture.
Not so the South Indian scenery, made glorious by Mr. Shetty's saturated palette and showman's ability to transform nature into an eye-popping stage set.
Human beings survive by using ingenuity to transform nature to meet their needs i.e., to produce and consume resources.
Consequently, Marx revises Hegelian "work" into material "labour", and in the context of human capacity to transform nature the term "labour power".
At every step in the production, storage and distribution process, energy is used to transform nature's resources into finished goods and services.
The tree advances his argument that landscape architecture, even at its most naturalistic, essentially transforms nature into artifice, and that accepting this opens the mind to the extraordinary.
Between the city and the forest lies the farm, where humans have transformed nature but are still in intimate contact with other creatures.
Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits.
Four centuries later the young British naturalist, Joseph Banks produced a more detailed and fuller account of wild and transformed nature in the Society Islands.
In Not Your Typical Political Animal: Animal Drawings and Paintings by Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal (Art Attack, paper, $24.95), this New York-born "red-diaper baby" turned Southern California art activist reveals his skill at transforming nature into propaganda.
