Santayana interpreted Deweyan metaphysics, with its upon the interaction between human beings and their natural environment and its potential for the possibility of human transformation of nature, as a complete reversal of the traditional scope of the "scala naturae".
CIVILIZATIONS: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature, by Felipe Felipedez-Armesto.
The story of this, the biggest transformation of nature in British history, is told in a new book, 'The Lost Fens', which reveals a unique habitat, and its fish, fowl, insects, birds and plants, which has now almost gone.
The Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) and Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought (1946) are collections of essays expressing his views on the relationship of art to life, traditional art, and the ideological parallels between the arts of the East and the pre-Renaissance West.
Landscape is the result of a collective transformation of nature.
Socio-ecological holism provided the grand vision for a transformation of nature and society, conceived as a unitary whole.
Even death loses its fearsome grip, for one realizes that life and death are equally a part of the transformation of nature.
The natural world is manipulated to produce food, and weeds are an inevitable part of food production, but the emphasis on control has obscured the right question, which is a systemic, holistic one that accepts transformation of nature as a necessary prerequisite to food production, but rejects domination of nature.
This has been a problem for Uzbekistan since Stalin's failed plan for the Transformation of Nature during the 1940s drained the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan's main water reserve) to irrigate cotton fields.
A more recent approach reflecting broader changes in cultural geography focuses on the 'meaning of the rural' and its representation in narratives of innocent change and transformation of natures and societies.
