Our Western heritage has been one of control, of man against nature, of man needing to tame nature, and create as his likes and as his needs dictate regardless of consequences.
"It's man versus nature, and unfortunately man is winning out, " says Pam Iacono, a Fairfield, Conn.
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The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.
Unhappily, the combination of superstition and anthropomorphism skews an otherwise skilful and engaging piece of reporting that raises intriguing questions about man and nature.
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"This is literally a turning point in the relationship between man and nature, " said molecular biologist Richard Ebright at Rutgers University, who wasn't involved in the project.
Conscious of the French ambivalence toward wealth, and perhaps in thrall to it, he had long presented himself, in spite of his business successes, as a man of nature.
Extending that principle, perhaps with special bridges that can support local vegetation and thus allow animals the illusion of an uninterrupted habitat, might be a cheap way of letting man and nature rub along a bit better.
In fact, the difference was so great that in order to get the same competence score as a man, a woman would need either to know someone on the committee, or to have published three more papers than the man in Nature or Science, the two journals with the highest impact or 20 more papers in good specialist journals.
Has man's nature evolved so much as a jot or a tittle in 5, 000 years?
Their reputation for rarity comes in no small part from man, not nature.
Meanwhile the erosion continues, and the villages downstream suffer from floods which owe as much to the hand of man as to nature.
But both the economic and social appeal of liberty are, in the long run, irresistible because it is in man's nature to be free.
In this state where one does not make mistakes and does not violate the laws of nature man has the right to "play the Creator" in his life on earth.
"Tolkien is remembered by Rose as a gentle man who loved nature, and who, when he felt tired while out walking, would just lie down and have a nap, " he said.
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Man, by nature is a conscious, rational being.
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In part, Mr Picou says, this is due to the nature of man-made disasters.
He merely appealed to our carnal nature and demonized Romney by ratcheting up covetousness sown into the nature of man.
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But wolves abound, preying on greed sown into the nature of man.
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What is industrialisation, if not man trying to conquer nature?
The need for active, purposeful management of the Earth's systems clashes with a premise on which much of modernity, including environmentalism, is founded, namely, that man stands apart from nature.
It is true that there have been immense improvements in material conditions during the past century, but they are quite external and they leave man's fundamental nature no better than it was before.
Mr Moran said the words were reminiscent of the early sections of Neruda's great 1945 poem Heights of Macchu Picchu, which contrasts the "spontaneous and ceaseless self-renewal of Nature with Man's impermanence".
The development of consumer content technology that automatically assists consumers in doing this could lead to new fortunes as well as the protection and retention of content that might otherwise be lost to the vicissitudes of nature and man.
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The uncomfortable truth is that there is no accounting for man's follies or nature's whims.
In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest.
Yet this has less to do with Ms Secrest's abilities, which are considerable, and more to do with the nature of the man and the material at hand.
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Gone was the age of man harnessing other men, and on the rise was the age of man harnessing the power of nature through science and industry to advance human life.
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