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Even as early as the 1920s he held a vision for school students of New Zealand to be involved in planting native trees and plants in their school grounds.
This vision bore fruit and schools in New Zealand have long planted native trees on Arbor Day.
Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.
They are also known to form polyspecific groups with tamarins, perhaps because Goeldi's Marmosets are not known to have the X-linked polymorphism which enables some individuals of other New World Monkey species to see in full tri-chromatic vision.
Learned and ignorant alike were astonished at the spectacle ... It is a real and palpable vision of the New World.
Indeed, after her disbelieved first report of a resurrection vision, Mary Magdalene disappears from the New Testament.
" Future together ", as the name implies, is opposed to a racial vision of New Caledonian society, which divides into opposing camps Melanesians native inhabitants and European settlers, and is in favor of a multicultural New Caledonia, better reflecting the existence of large populations of Polynesians, Indonesians, Chinese, and other immigrants.
An idealised vision of the new British settlement was given in the novel by Therese Forster, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland on a Voyage to New Holland, published in the German women ’ s magazine, Flora for 1793 and 1794:
According to the New Testament, in AD 49 or 50 the city was visited by the apostle Paul who was guided there by a vision ().
The result was the New Poems, famous for the " thing-poems " expressing Rilke's rejuvenated artistic vision.
New York Times writer Peter Watrous declared in a concert review: " He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity ".
Future events are also taken into account, such as the coming forth of scripture even after the Book of Mormon, that would make truths known which were taken out from the New Testament, a concept discussed in the several passages of this vision.
His colonisation programs were over-elaborate and operated on a much smaller scale than he hoped for, but his ideas influenced law and culture, especially his vision for the colony as the embodiment of post-Enlightenment ideals, the notion of New Zealand as a model society, and the sense of fairness in employer-employee relations.
MSI's Board of Directors selected Waldemar Kaempffert, then the science editor of The New York Times, because he shared Rosenwald's vision.
Unusual among the New World monkeys, they are monochromats, that is, they have no colour vision, presumably because it is of no advantage given their nocturnal habits.
The Harvesters ( 1565 ) is at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which comments, " Bruegel created a watershed in the history of Western art, suppressing the religious and iconographic associations of earlier depictions of the seasons in favor of an unidealized vision of landscape.
It may be inferred that this speech depicted Lang's personal vision of the past, present and future of New South Wales and Australia's place in the British Empire and world, ( to read this speech, refer to ' Stirring Australian Speeches ', edited by Michael Cathcart and Kate Darian-Smith ).
Bacon was born in a frontier log-cabin in Tallmadge, Ohio, the youngest daughter of a Congregationalist minister, who in pursuit of a vision had abandoned New Haven for the wilds of Ohio.
The vision of constructing a town on the Hernando-Pasco border was conceived in New York City, in 1924, by Joseph Joscak, editor of a Czechoslovakian newspaper.
Owen and his twenty-two-year-old son, William, sailed to the United States in 1824 to purchase a site to implement Owen's vision for " a New Moral World " of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity through education, science, technology, and communal living.
Despite the community's shortcomings, Owen was a passionate promoter of his vision for New Harmony.
Although Robert Owen's vision of New Harmony as an advance in social reform was not realized, the town did become a scientific center of national significance, especially in the natural sciences, most notably geology.

vision and Testament
The biblical account of this vision () is one of the standard Old Testament readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos.
The Roman Empire also figured into the New Testament writers ' vision of the future.
The New Testament book of Revelation ( Bible ) thus uses vision as a literary device in this regard.
The second vision portrays seven angels bringing Levi seven insignia signifying priesthood, prophecy, and judgement ; in the vision, after the angels anoint Levi, and initiate him as a priest, they tell him of the future of his descendants, mentioning Moses, the Aaronid priesthood, and a time when there would be priest-kings ; this latter point was of particular interest to the Maccabean period of John Hyrcanus, who was both a high priest, and warrior-king, though according to textual scholars this is to be expected, since the Testament of Levi was written during Maccabean rule, between 153BC and 107BC, and closer to the latter date.
This range is further extended in his Testament of Cresseid with its more tragic vision.
These Old Testament books describe the Apocalypse, meaning literally the " unveiling ", a vision of an eschatological event or end times.
Testament ( 1983 ), another postwar vision of survival in a small California town after WWIII ; WarGames ( 1983 ), features a young computer hacker who nearly starts World War Three when he inadvertently breaks into a fictional NORAD supercomputer named WOPR ( War Operation Plan Response ) to play the latest video games ; The Terminator ( 4 films, 1984, 1991, 2003, 2009 ) features a post-apocalyptic future in which artificial intelligence has become self aware, identifies all humans as a threat and uses the worlds nuclear arsenal to destroy mankind.
It also holds reference to the vision of Ezekiel of the " throne " or " chariot " of God in the Old Testament.
The Second Apocalypse of James ( in this context " apocalypse " means revelation or vision ) is one of the Gnostic Gospels, part of the New Testament apocrypha.
The Apocalypse of Thomas ( i. e. vision ) is a work from the New Testament apocrypha, apparently composed originally in Latin.
" to make known world-wide the forgiveness of sins through the atoning death of Christ ; the baptism in water by immersion ; the baptism of the Holy Ghost with signs following ; the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost ; the five gifts of our Ascended Lord ; and the vision referred to in the New Testament as ' the Church which is His Body '.
** Into the middle of this ( 3: 13-4: 22 ) is a Christian apocalypse called the Testament of Hezekiah, describing a vision of the coming of Jesus, the subsequent corruption of the Christian church, the rule of Beliar, and the second coming.
* A New Testament Christophany is Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, and the subsequent one of Ananias.
* Another New Testament example is John's vision of the Son of Man, recounted in Revelation 1: 12-18.
In the Testament of Levi, Kohath's birth, occurring when Levi was 35 years old, is accompanied by a vision of Kohath being on high in the midst of all the congregation ; in the vision, Kohath's name is described as meaning beginning of majesty and instruction, and is portrayed as a prophecy of him being raised above his siblings, but according to biblical scholars, the meaning of Kohath's name is fairly unknown, although it may be related to an Aramaic word meaning obey.
The vision that the Lord gave to the leaders of CCF is to establish a church patterned after that of the New Testament.
The Ophanim are also equated as the " Thrones ", associated with the " Wheels ", in the vision of Daniel 7: 9 ( Old Testament ).

vision and Book
In the early 11th century, Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ) wrote the Book of Optics ( Kitab al-manazir ) in which he explored reflection and refraction and proposed a new system for explaining vision and light based on observation and experiment.
Moreover, the Book of Revelation says that its author was on the island of Patmos " for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus ", when he was honored with the vision contained in Revelation.
Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").
* 1021 — Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ) writes the Book of Optics, studying vision.
Ezekiel's ell, by which he gave measurements in his guided vision through a future Jerusalem Temple, is thus one sixth larger than the standard ell, for which an explanation seems to be suggested by the Book of Chronicles ; the Chronicler writes that Solomon's Temple was built according to " cubits following the first measure ", suggesting that over the course of time the original ell was supplanted by a smaller one.
In the Book of Daniel, parts of the text were riginally written in Aramaic, this portion of the volume ( 7: 13-14 ) deals with a vision attributed to the author about " the times of the end ".
The vision inspired him to write the " PreScriptures " ( as described in the Book of the SubGenius ) and found the Church.
Leadership Award " for dedicated vision and commitment to family farm agriculture ; the Special International Literary Prize “ Ken Saro Wiwa ” awarded by Acquiambiente, Italy for her book Water Wars ; the " Reading for the Environment Book Prize " by the German Foundation for the Environment for her book Tomorrow ’ s Biodiversity
But she spoke to the hero without any disguise in Book V where he could see her in the true divine form ( a special vision was granted to him ).
Belshazzar's Feast ( Rembrandt ) | Belshazzar's Feast depicts a The writing on the wall | vision described in the biblical Book of Daniel.
* Jesus ' vision of the dove when baptized in the Book of Mark 1: 10 ( 1st century
According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Lehi is shown the tree of life in a dream or vision before he leaves Jerusalem, between 600 and 592 BC.
The Book of Revelation makes a reference to a vision the author had of Jesus: " among the lampstands was someone like a Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
The author of the Book of Revelation tells how he sees in a vision Satan rallying Gog and Magog, " the nations in the four corners of the Earth ," to a final battle with Christ and his saints:
Drawing on his Pentecostal beliefs, Ríos Montt invoked a modern apocalyptic vision comparing the four riders of the Book of Revelation to the four modern evils of hunger, misery, ignorance and subversion, as well as fighting corruption and what he described as the depredations of the rich.
Christian ethics has a teleological aspect -- all ethical behavior is oriented towards a vision of the Kingdom of God -- a righteous society where all live in peace and harmony with God and nature, as envisioned in the Book of Isaiah.
In the early 16th century, Castiglione ( The Book of the Courtier ) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while Machiavelli cast a jaundiced eye on " la verità effettuale della cosa "— the actual truth of things — in The Prince, composed, humanist style, chiefly of parallel ancient and modern examples of Virtù.
The Book of Abraham tells a story of Abraham's life, travels to Canaan and Egypt and a vision he received concerning the universe and the creation of the world.
Similarly, the Apocryphon of John ( also part of the Nag Hammadi library ) has been useful in studying the prevailing attitudes in the second century, and questions of authorship regarding the Book of revelation, given that it refers to Revelation 1: 19, but is mostly about the post ascension teachings of Jesus in a vision, not a narrative of his life.
" This form of God the Father is separate from Christ as the image of God, as is evident from the vision of Joseph Smith prior to receiving the Book of Mormon, when he saw the Father and the Son with separate bodily forms.
He also is thought to have received the same vision as John the Revelator which is canonized in the Book of Revelation.
To bolster his claims, Strang published translations of two purportedly long-lost works: the Voree Record, deciphered from three metal plates reportedly unearthed in response to a vision ; and the Book of the Law of the Lord, supposedly transcribed from the Plates of Laban mentioned in The Book of Mormon.

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