Some Gaians say Gaia is Earth's authentic name as " She " is therefore personalized in order for us as humans to have a better relationship with Her.

Gaians are also described as mentalic, although they have the added abilities of adjusting non-human life as well as converting usable energy into work through conscious will alone ( thermokinesis ).

Some Gaians say Gaia is Earth's authentic name as " She " is therefore personalized in order for us as humans to have a better relationship with Her.

Political Gaians are a relatively recent offshoot of the ecology movement — and get their name from the Gaia hypothesis, a postulate first devised by James Lovelock holding that the biosphere tends to homeorhetic balance or even homeostasis ( with the implication that human beings should be working toward such balances or states.

Gaians argue that societies evolve deterministically to play a role in the ecology of their biosphere, or else die off as failures due to competition from more efficient societies exploiting nature's leverage.

Some radical political environmentalists who accept some form of the Gaia theory call themselves Gaians.

Gaians do not passively ask " what is going on ", but rather, " what to do next ", e. g. in terraforming or climate engineering or even on a small scale, such as gardening.

Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such-committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle.

Gaians played an important role in shaping the future course of universe.

In the end of Foundation and Earth, the main character, Golan Trevize, explains that psychohistory had a flaw, that it didn't apply for humaniform robots like R. Daneel Olivaw, Gaians like Bliss and the Mule and more like them.

Members of Gaia Online, known as Gaians, receive a customizable avatar when they sign up.

Gaians are individuals who use the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock spiritually.

Many Gaians become vegetarian or vegan, however this is not a requirement.

Bliss, like all Gaians, has an enormous affinity for life and can't bear to see life destroyed.

Gaians are individuals who use the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock spiritually.

Many Gaians often become vegetarians and vegans, however this is not a requirement.

In contrast, some Gaians see such colonists as locusts or a disease, and may see all human beings as elements of a single Earth-wide ecology, if not organism.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

The American people have indeed come a long way in the brief interval between 1930 and 1961.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time.

The Federal program eventually should have a favorable impact on Missouri's depressed areas, and in the long run that will benefit St. Louis as well.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge.

Evidently the war drum beating and hysteria so painstakingly being stirred up in the West have been planned long in advance.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

`` I think I've fixed the pump so we won't have to worry about it for a long time '', he said.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

No other names among the young men in residence at the time seem to have been even suggested by Milton as those of persons with whom he in any way consorted.

Now the park is filled with marble busts and all the streets in the immediate area have the full and proper names of the men who fell.

inns have burned down, moved elsewhere, or taken other names.

There are many types of ambiguity and many of them have been described by rhetoricians under such names as amphibology, parisology, and other ologies.

Otherwise, symbolic names may have previously been assigned to these same index words.

To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann.

Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests.

They did not have the wit to follow the stars in their courses, to exchange names with each other, to harvest the experience of each for the wisdom of all.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

He may have acted as suffragan, or subordinate bishop, to his predecessor Lyfing before formally assuming the bishopric, as from about 1043 Ealdred witnessed as an episcopus, or bishop, and a charter from 1045 or early 1046 names Sihtric as abbot of Tavistock.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain that incorporate the ambre-element: examples include Ombersley in Worcestershire, Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, Amberley in Herefordshire, Amberley in Gloucestershire and Amberley in West Sussex.

Some elements of Aboriginal languages have been adopted by Australian English — mainly as names for places, flora and fauna ( for example dingo ) and local culture.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

The battles fought here have no names and seem to have little overall significance, except for the impending possibility of injury or death for Bäumer and his comrades.

Protestants have objected that this theory is not explicitly found in Scripture and the New Testament uses ' bishop ' and ' presbyter ' as alternative names for the same office.