It has established a Ministry of Nature Protection and introduced taxes for air and water pollution and solid waste disposal, whose revenues are used for environmental protection activities.

* Nature of election – Arminians hold that election to eternal salvation has the condition of faith attached.

Sheldrake in his book The Rebirth of Nature: New Science and the Revival of Animism ( 1991 ) has claimed that Morphic fields " animate organisms at all levels of complexity, from galaxies to giraffes, and from ants to atoms ".

The Roman Lucretius's scientific poem " On the Nature of Things " ( c. 60 BC ) has a remarkable description of Brownian motion of dust particles.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

He asserts that " Nature, by an absolute and uncontroulable necessity has determin'd us to judge as well as to breathe and feel ".

Edward Fredkin in the Fredkin Finite Nature Hypothesis has suggested an informational basis for Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system.

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

Alan Marshall, in the Department of Social Sciences at Mahidol University, for example, reflects upon the way Gaia philosophy has been used and advocated by environmentalists, spiritualists, managers, economists, and scientists and engineers ( see The Unity of Nature, 2002, Imperial College Press: London and Singapore ).

A later claim of a live individual sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland has been accepted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ).

It is classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) as Least Concern, but has been extirpated from many parts of its former range, and some subspecies are classified as Endangered.

The journal Nature has reported that the IAEA response to the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan was " sluggish and sometimes confusing ", drawing calls for the agency to " take a more proactive role in nuclear safety ".

The journal Nature has reported that " the world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety " and that " the public would be better served by an IAEA more able to deliver frank and independent assessments of nuclear crises as they unfold ".

In addition, research published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature has shown that computer simulations of evolution demonstrate that it is possible for complex features to evolve naturally.

A number of noteworthy coastal areas abut the Kattegat, including the Kullaberg Nature Reserve in Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rocky shore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the Kullaberg, and Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark.

At Phillip Island, a viewing area has been set up at the Phillip Island Nature Park to allow visitors to view the nightly " penguin parade ".

The entire island has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and it was England's first statutory Marine Nature Reserve, and the first Marine Conservation Zone, because of its unique flora and fauna.

Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently ( for example, see Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in the United States ), an international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined " National Park " as its Category II type of protected areas.

The U. S. Declaration of Independence states that it has become necessary for the United States to assume " the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them ".

These belief systems hold that the Creator ( or, in some cases, Nature or Evolution ) has fashioned a system of absolute freedom: human volition that features a free and independent nature.

Substance, according to Spinoza, is one and indivisible, but has multiple modes ; what we ordinarily call the natural world, together with all the individuals in it, is immanent in God: hence the famous phrase Deus sive Natura (" God, or Nature ").

" " Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists " Sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and appears continuously in the world's top scientific journals such as Nature and Science. The more general term behavioral ecology is commonly used as substitute for the term sociobiology in order to avoid the public controversy.

Shetland has three National Nature Reserves, at the seabird colonies of Hermaness and Noss, and at Keen of Hamar to preserve the serpentine flora.

::“ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Other intellectuals in the environmental movement ( like Edward Goldsmith ) have used Gaia in the completely opposite way ; to stake a claim about how Gaia's focus on natural balance and resistance and resilience, should be emulated to design a conservative political system ( as explored in Alan Marshall's 2002 book ' The Unity of Nature ', ( Imperial College Press: London ).

David Hume famously argued in A Treatise of Human Nature that people invariably slip between describing that the world is a certain way to saying therefore we ought to conclude on a particular course of action.

In this way, Kelsen contends, the bindingness of legal norms, their specifically ' legal ' character, can be understood without tracing it ultimately to some suprahuman source such as God, personified Nature or — of great importance in his time — a personified State or Nation.

A report in Nature suggested that researchers had found a way to transform human skin cells into working nerve cells using a process called transdifferentiation in which " cells are forced to adopt new identities.

Nature may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed.

By way of contrast to Hobbes's multiplicity of laws, Cumberland states in the very first sentence of his Treatise of the Laws of Nature that " all the Laws of Nature are reduc'd to that one, of Benevolence toward all Rationals.

He argued that in the same way a watch's complexity implies the existence of its maker, so too one may infer the Creator of the universe exists, given the evident complexity of Nature.

Following the ideas of the Academics, Zeno divided philosophy into three parts: Logic ( a very wide subject including rhetoric, grammar, and the theories of perception and thought ); Physics ( not just science, but the divine nature of the universe as well ); and Ethics, the end goal of which was to achieve happiness through the right way of living according to Nature.

John Maddox, editor of Nature from 1966 to 1973 as well as from 1980 to 1995, suggested at a celebratory dinner for the journal ’ s centennial edition that perhaps it was the journalistic qualities of Nature that drew readers in ; “ journalism ” Maddox states, “ is a way of creating a sense of community among people who would otherwise be isolated from each other.

In A Treatise of Human Nature Hume pointed out there is no obvious way for a series of statements about what ought to be the case to be derived from a series of statements of what is the case.

Adam Smith, in his book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, explains the origin of primogeniture in Europe in the following way:

But either way there ’ s Nature and she ’ s going to come out the way She is.

In a letter to Nature, written to refute an article saying that the Draize test had not changed much since the 1940s, Professor Sir Andrew Huxley wrote: " A substance expected from its chemical nature to be seriously painful must not be tested in this way ; the test is permissible only if the substance has already been shown not to cause pain when applied to skin, and in vitro pre-screening tests are recommended, such as a test on an isolated and perfused eye.

Its simulation published in Nature paved the way for understanding protein motion as essential in function and not just accessory.

Its simulation published in Nature paved the way for the vast area of modern computational protein-folding.

Nature produces against Nature in the most extraordinary way.

An article coauthored by Stuart Levy in the August 6, 1998 issue of Nature warned that triclosan's overuse could cause resistant strains of bacteria to develop, in much the same way that antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains are emerging.

With their second album Mother Nature Calls, released April 1997 the " rockier material was now sounding looser and cockier in a Stonesy or Faces-ish way and the moodier tracks awash with melancholic atmosphere ".

The vegetation on earth is the " hair " on the head of Mother Nature in the same way the hair on the head of a woman is her " foliage.