We also had Re-Living Thing, the rap version of Living Thing too.
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We were thinking about how we could make that sound as if an accordion were a living thing, or part of a living thing.
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You're stepping into an environment that's also a living thing.
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I was there, and the book was a living thing.
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And theatre itself was so ephemeral, like any living thing.
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Why are there microscopic artworks clustered inside every living thing?
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When it gets going, a fire is like a living thing.
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Probably. There's nothing quite like nurturing a living thing into bloom.
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The only other living thing there is a strange white fox.
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And Prater left with one less living thing sharing his body.
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In fact, Netflix, like a living thing, molts once a month.
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We want video to be a living thing on the Internet.
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It said, "guess I'll try this living thing some more," basically.
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They essentially ignore any living thing that was raised in captivity.
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It is a reminder that great wine is a living thing.
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It's every living thing, plant and animal; it's the planet itself.
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The genes on chromosomes influence the traits of every living thing.
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Make a bee bath Like any living thing, bees need water.
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And taking care of another living thing is a big responsibility.
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It's a living thing, and everybody's trying to figure it out.
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That includes teaching his "second batch" the value of every living thing.
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It feels like a living thing … when you touch it, it's magical.
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Finally, Dolores is asked if she would ever hurt a living thing.
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I burst into tears, vowing never again to shoot another living thing.
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And over in the lab, Raven too, was trying this living thing.
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It's the first multicellular living thing to known to survive without this protein.
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Along with that comes the anxiety of taking care of a "living" thing.
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We're closer to vanishing off the edge of history than any living thing.
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I mean, Living Thing came out on Columbia and Seaside Rock did not.
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Birds also have an intrinsic value like any living thing on our planet.
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That makes it the oldest living thing with a backbone on Earth. 35.
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In Westgate Park's lake, the only living thing is a single-celled algae.
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Art is a living thing, and meaning is gleaned by those who consume it.
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It's a living thing—you feel like it's alive when you're interacting with it.
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She was happy to look at a living thing that needed nothing from her.
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Everyone is just relieved that it wasn't an actual living thing, hungry for townsfolk.
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But it also makes room to see artificial intelligence itself as a living thing.
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Every living thing on earth replicates, whether that be asexually (boring) or sexually (fun).
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I was one of life's biggest fans, the best example of a living thing.
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And it's important to try and contextualize the body as an actual living thing.
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We have treated every living being and non-living thing as consumable and expendable.
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How do you organize a march against the violent death of every living thing?
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To her, this was not just a fossil or relic, but a living thing.
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It is a living thing to some cultures and a dead thing to others.
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"Anytime it's over 70 degrees, you should not leave any living thing in your car."
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But Geogemma barossii is a living thing from another world, deep within our very own.
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The second is a lot scarier, the psychopath who lacks empathy for any living thing.
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Although you live alone, you do share your home with a living thing, I see.
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When the White Walkers finally descend, they won't just kill every living thing in their path.
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Her thoughts reach for her wayward brother like a living thing, like branches seeking the sun.
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Because the night is a living thing and in Britain it is currently—blatantly—under attack.
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The Lover is not flawless, necessarily, but it does breathe—it shudders like a living thing.
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For him, culture was a living thing, not a box full of treasures to be plundered.
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My fear was no longer contained in my head but pulsed through my body, a living thing.
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I remember thinking the ocean was completely like a living thing, and I would talk to it.
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It deliberately frames its plot as a living thing that makes us quietly complicit in its creation.
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Your Twitter abstract is a living thing that grows and reshapes itself, constantly offering up new surprises.
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It's how onions protect themselves, I tell her: Every living thing wants most of all to live.
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His gaze on her was a living thing, like the fire licking at the wood in the hearth.
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It has beauty and needs to be taken care of by humans, because Earth is a living thing.
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Our planet is a living thing, and a disease like polar ice loss can harm the entire system.
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I had just told my then-boyfriend I was no longer too keen on this whole "living" thing.
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"One feels inclined to identify with the work as if it is a living thing," commented one observer.
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"What I like is how it almost feels like the video itself is one living thing," Feighan says.
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Climate change has started to touch every living thing, and not even bacteria are immune from its effects.
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The Big Ideas I try to remember that every living thing arose from essentially the same genetic foundation.
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"The Earth is like a vibrant living thing," the Chinese astronaut Yang Liu thought, when he saw it.
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Would you welcome the third living thing in your double room, or would you ask for a transfer?
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Cultural heritage is a living thing, at the heart of vibrant communities of flesh and blood human beings.
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It would fundamentally change the way each of us feels about being a living thing in the cosmos.
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You can think of these sort of like stellar burps, only with radiation that would kill any living thing.
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Then the physical entity, present in each cell of our bodies, in every living thing, had to be discovered.
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"You don't have to be a living thing to feel it," said Arash Akhavan, a dermatologist in New York.
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Plants, however, were O.K. "That was the only living thing I could have as my own," Mr. Busch said.
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Music industry execs can keep trying to reincarnate a living thing, or they can make sure it's really dead first.
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But until now, as far as scientists know, no living thing has ever made molecules where silicon and carbon connect.
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The efts usually spend three to six years on land, eating insects, worms and any living thing that's small enough.
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After a decade of solitary confinement, though, I couldn't bear to put another living thing in a cage with me.
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Luckily, I trust Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton with a living thing waaaay more than the actor's Roy family counterpart.
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Reid set up the drone on a wooden table, treating it as carefully as if it were a living thing.
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Each living thing, no matter how charismatic, is always but one part of a fuller mosaic, in constant swirling motion.
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It reminds me of an actual swamp where its dark, creepy, broken, and every living thing there is out for themselves.
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Aside from the kids, this is the only other living thing — that we know of — that now exists in both universes.
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I love all smart, connected planters because I can't keep a living thing alive, but they also seem to keep failing.
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She didn't look sad or broken — just happy to be free and to forge an instant connection with another living thing.
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Sheppard and Lawson will at turns refer to the ramp as magic, as a living thing, as their third dance partner.
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Dubbed the Darwin Tree of Life Project, it's the first major contribution to the global effort to sequence every living thing.
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Local fishermen working out of hand-hewn canoes compete with megatrawlers whose mile-long nets sweep up virtually every living thing.
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But Sterling suggests we might also remake ourselves into some kind nurturing ground in which some lovely living thing might grow.
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It is a very strong culture, and the people are really helpful to each other and respectful of every living thing.
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Keeping another living thing alive feels good, and filling your space with the fruits of your labor is nothing short of moving.
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What is the name of the "largest living thing on Earth," which is actually a massive ecosystem of islands and coral reefs?
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Because even though one can eat practically any living thing, I almost always eat the boring things the supermarket provides me with.
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Farmers were wealthy because "there was enough rain for every living thing", and they tapped plentiful, thorny acacia trees for gum arabic.
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An amateur naturalist, Gosse catalogued every living thing he saw: hawk moths and humble bees, turkey buzzards and crayfish, woodpeckers and whippoorwills.
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No better way to spend your day off than by plucking another living thing out of the water Wait, what did you expect?
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Once you wake up that spirit, you need to give it a name and take care of it like any other living thing.
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This year, they're worried the only living thing on their beaches come the Fourth of July might be some putrid blue-green algae.
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"People were surprised at the dog statistic but it shows a level of responsibility that you're caring for a living thing," Wingard said.
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Microorganisms tend to evolve (read: mutate) at an alarming rate compared to every living thing else in the world, and viruses even more so.
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"It sometimes seems that every living thing can bite or poke or sting or shoot you," Wright says of the state where he lives.
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Try to ignore the sinking feeling that accompanies the realization: You've just stabbed through a living thing, potentially puncturing its lungs, stomach, or heart.
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"I was so happy to bring this beautiful living thing into the shelter because those flowers represented life and hope," McClarey, 34, tells PEOPLE.
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And it's meaningless because any trace of genetic material will have been pulverized during the processing stage; a Goldfish cracker isn't a living thing.
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Filmstrips are a living thing — they degrade and expand and contract and mutate and warp over time based on the conditions they're left in.
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Up until that point, touching another living thing took place in the context of bloody fights, degrading pat-downs, and dignity-crushing strip searches.
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What happened was we did Living Thing and we had a hard time doing that live because it was really made in the studio.
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To that end, the works suggest that language is not simply ethereal and cerebral, but infinitely malleable, corporeal, and tactile — a living thing, even.
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The NBA is a living thing, and the strange communal organisms in it mutate at a crazy rate if left alone to do so.
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But Bowen's own installation shows that we don't need superintelligent beings to have computers that can take care of a living thing over time.
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His classmates relate how Bart could never hurt a living thing — he had gone hunting with them, and had refused to kill a mountain lion.
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The largely positive nature of this experiment may have something to do with the fact that it revolves around taking care of the living thing.
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The problem with modernist utopian planning, in a nutshell, is that it conceives of the city not as a living thing, but as a machine.
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That one we made after all of the touring before Living Thing, just to get into the studio thing and get into some recording vibes.
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Owning a plant, in other words, was more about the way it fit into an Instagram square and less about keeping a living thing alive.
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It creates a sense of the hive as a living thing, one that's trying to fight off the threat you represent like a body's immune system.
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Yes: An Arizona woman discovered the last thing anyone wants to find inside their sneaker, a living thing, which in this case, was a huge spider.
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Dog probz Dear Dog probz, My suggestion, when it comes to bringing a living thing into your life, is never impulse-buy anything with a heartbeat.
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In the months after I came out, the tension in my house was like a living thing, growing bigger and bigger until it filled every room.
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Let's say that violence is behavior that uses physical force in order to cause damage, harm or death to some living thing, whether human or not.
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The brutality, the hunger, the fear — they will always be there, deep inside, just as they are for any other living thing who has suffered terribly.
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They would stitch or glue feathers, one by one, to gauzy substrates of silk, organza, or muslin, until the fabric flexed and flowed like a living thing.
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But, in these 1861 sketches, we see Nast's mastery of the living thing, the face seized from life, which gives tensile strength to his more elaborate tableaux.
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Artist Rachel Owens made casts of the Alley Pond Giant, the oldest living thing in New York City, and fused them with a rainbow of glass shards.
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For Su-metal, what she realized through the recording process is that the song is kind of a living thing, because it's always constantly evolving or changing.
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Next, think about the qualities and features you've just described as "strange" and consider how they might help this living thing adapt to its environment and survive?
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It had the effect of turning the classroom into a torture chamber, in which everything that made the poem a living thing had been killed and butchered.
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Unlike Squid, it turns out, this movie is not showing you a car crash or its aftermath, but a living thing that's being maintained against steep odds.
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As with every kind of living thing on the planet, human activity can upend the natural order for insects, freeing them of natural predators and bolstering their spawn.
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Trico, the beast, feels like a living thing, and The Last Guardian managed to make me care about a game character, which is something so few games accomplish.
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For example, one sensor, developed at the University of Waterloo and announced today, uses radar to detect a living thing in the back seat by measuring its breathing.
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What they identified was that these genes are found in every living thing and that the activity level of these genes decreases through the normal course of aging.
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The Impossible Burger's meat-like flavor is largely attributed to heme, an essential nutrient in many proteins that is found in just about every living thing on Earth.
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A ring of glass monoliths stands in the center of the ZieherSmith gallery, each formed from a cast of the oldest known living thing in New York City.
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A stone is, in its own way, a living thing, not a biological being but one with a history far beyond our capacity to understand or even imagine.
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Sometime in 2020: Artemis 1 launches the BioSentinel CubeSat carrying yeast cells — NASA's first attempt to send a living thing beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo moon missions
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The brainchild of chemist James Lovelock, the hypothesis imagines Earth as one superorganism called Gaia; a living thing built from intricate coevolutionary interactions between the ecological and geological spheres.
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Shrimpers worked in the night with simple lights offshore our land, to trawl and bring to land what once was the living thing, complex in even its primal tract.
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Her one true friend is a feral cat named Oatmeal, who lives part-time at the bodega because she doesn't want to bind any living thing to her permanently.
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"As I said in 2013, the Senate is a living thing, and to survive, it must change -- just as it has throughout the history of our country," Reid said.
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ACCORDING TO THE Book of Genesis, Noah saved the animal kingdom by bringing "every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort..male and female" into the Ark.
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Its flag shows the head of a lion, a representation that would be considered haram or sinful by the most extreme fundamentalists who prohibit the depiction of any living thing.
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It might not be the easiest knife to wield, but it'll certainly make itself useful in a country where absolutely every living thing seems hellbent on killing or poisoning you.
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In modern genetics, a chimera exists when a single organism is composed of cells from different zygotes, often resulting in a living thing with both male and female sex organs.
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Not only that, it's a more mature take on the series, with Kratos actually having a relationship with his son and not just blindly killing every living thing he sees.
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When he heard that the medical school had reopened, he returned, but then had to flee again when the rebels invaded, in a strike they called Operation No Living Thing.
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The genomes of every living thing consist of four chemical units that function like letters in an alphabet, arranged in sequences, or "words," that tell its cells what to do.
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Get past the adulation and the free booze and the nice hotels and the romantic dinners and the whole playing records for a living thing and it's just a job.
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A xenobot is a one-of-a-kind organism: It's both a living thing made of living cells and a machine that the researchers can program to express certain behaviors.
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Using the bacterial quirk that is Crispr, scientists have essentially given anyone with a micropipette and an internet connection the power to manipulate the genetic code of any living thing.
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The book's second poem, Lucille Clifton's "the earth is a living thing," evokes rich, mythic images of blackness — a bear, a hawk — to convey an encompassing vision of the world.
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" What they're saying: Warren argued for focusing foreign policy around climate change: "It is the threat to every living thing on this planet, and we are running out of time.
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She's not a person that is overly, I would say, paranoid about new technologies that might change the definition of what it means to be a human or a living thing.
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Alice Beasley's "Lake Merritt Foggy Morning," for example, is a moody riff on a Bay Area weather phenomenon that can sometimes feel like a living thing as it envelops the landscape.
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Related: Early Explorers' Illustrations Inspire Uncanny Robot Paintings Industrial Robot Reprogrammed to Get Bored and Curious Like a Living Thing A Robot Challenged a Sword Master to a Battle of Blades
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The defining characteristic of The Thing was that the Thing wasn't defined - it could take on the form of any living thing — quite a demanding creature for a makeup and effects team!
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Images: Nature Mouse organs uncleared (top) and cleared (bottom)Generally, if scientists want to see how a living thing functions in high resolution, they need to slice it into tiny pieces first.
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Playing as a young boy, you built a powerful and lasting relationship with the creature, which felt more like a real living thing than anything I'd previously encountered in a virtual world.
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I am most passionate about the issues surrounding equality; I believe that every living thing is equally important and every person deserves the same freedoms and human rights as every other person.
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In 21990, the chemist Willard Libby announced a remarkable discovery: the age of any organic remnant can be determined by measuring the level of radiocarbon against what a living thing typically maintains.
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I've been warned many times that running away is always a viable option for encounters in Last of Us. But instead, I painstakingly murdered every living thing keeping me from my goal.
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But attempts to employ it to store data generated by people, as opposed to data needed to bring those people (and every other living thing) into being in the first place, have failed.
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In places too dry for any living thing to grow, they clear the ground of wind-blown plastics, scrape away the soil contaminated by distant factory smoke, and place white stones in lines.
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Also new in Pokémon Sun and Moon is an anthropomorphized Pokédex; your trainer is the lucky recipient of a Pokédex infused with an energy-based Pokémon, which turns it into a living thing.
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As the Washington Post and other outlets that study millennial habits with a similar curiosity have noted, plants provide a manageable taste of what it's like to be responsible for another living thing.
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We're locking ourselves into sea level rise, ocean acidification, and other climate change impacts that won't just affect our kids and grandkids, but potentially, every living thing for thousands of years to come.
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And all of them, including Will's siblings, take a while to adjust to seeing the robot as a living thing rather than an object, if they manage to make the turn at all.
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The entire mound—insects plus structure—is thus a living thing: a self-regulating physiological and cognitive system, with a sense of its own boundaries, a memory, and a kind of collective intentionality.
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Yoon's wide-ranging book reveals not just the history behind it, but also the remarkable way the quest to classify every living thing reveals so much about what it means to be human.
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The broth is a living thing, animal, drawn from a pot crowded with bones — long marrow bones, neck bones rayed like starfish, oxtail bones ringed with meat — and kept seething through the night.
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From the standpoint of almost every other living thing, humans, with a strategy of economic growth at all costs, have become a kind of hybrid deadly fungus, predatory lender and concentration camp management agency.
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Related: This Robot Rock Band Makes Music Using a Bunch of...Rocks Squarepusher Teams Up With A Robotic Band For New Track Industrial Robot Reprogrammed to Get Bored and Curious Like a Living Thing
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When you aren't from a city and you aren't born and raised around skyscrapers and only picking food up from the grocery store, you understand the process of a living thing becoming your food.
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I'm happier having a cut flower that I can be done with when I'm done with it, but I think there's something really irreplaceable about having a living thing and having some sort of greenery.
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The park's parent company, Delos Inc, has been shown to have the almost godlike ability to create perfect, biologically accurate replicas of almost every living thing, from fully intelligent human beings to the smallest bird.
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The oak, which was supposed to be a symbol of a longstanding French-American alliance, had been placed in quarantine, because it was a living thing imported to the United States, the French ambassador said.
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So let me have this now before the blossoms take my absence from the yard and I am again only one-sided, a living thing responsible to live, finding myself in tall grass, whispering back.
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Ros considers his most valuable asset to be his capacity to observe, analyze, and absorb, which is part of the reason he treats his work as a living thing, one that evolves and transitions over time.
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It sounds anathema to what you'd expect from an astrophysicist, a man—supposedly—of numbers suspending his disbelief to reel out a metaphor of the night as a living thing for the duration of a novel.
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"Every living thing of the ocean, plant and animal alike, returns to the water at the end of its own life span the materials which had been temporarily assembled to form its body," Carson once wrote.
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Not only are you responsible for the demise of a living thing, but it doesn't exactly bode well for those future commitments, like children or pets, that you may be viewing your plant as a test for.
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As researchers Shipman and Harvard professor George Church explain in the video below, the choice of Muybridge's horse wasn't random, but recalled the photographer's pioneering experiments in understanding nature, and instills biological movement in another living thing.
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Global warming threatens every living thing on earth, but cutting the pollution that causes it threatens the profits of enough executives, the climate researcher Richard Heede told the Guardian, to fit on a couple of Greyhound buses.
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Viserion's death reminds us that Daenerys' (Emilia Clarke) dragons are not a deus ex machina — they can be killed just like any other living thing, and can even be used as a weapon against the saviors of Westeros.
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Related: In 2065, a Military Satellite Becomes Self-Aware—and Wants to Become an Artist An Engineer Is Painting Surreal Scenarios That Confuse Self-Driving Cars Industrial Robot Reprogrammed to Get Bored and Curious Like a Living Thing
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But the larger point about living in this world — life after 'the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property' — means it has become impossible to recognize the difference between coercion and freedom.
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Parsing out whether a methane molecule came from a living thing or geology could involve digging into its isotopic composition, but even then, it's not a sure-fire way to confirm the origins of the detection, scientists say.
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After three bitter years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of the most common methods for editing the DNA in any living thing is finally drawing to a close.
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In Alley Pond Park, he tracks down the oldest living thing in the city — the Queens Giant, an around 400-year-old poplar tulip tree — and finds in its trunk a Tupperware container of notes left by previous visitors.
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And the idea of it being a living thing that gets ingested, something you quite literally take into your own body, is a huge part of Fani-Kayode's "Bodies of Experience" series (of which this photo is a part).
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It endures on the fringes of the repertory as a display cabinet for comic actors, and a few of the roles, like Lady Gay — "glee made a living thing," as one character describes her — must be bliss to play.
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Stick bug eggs taken from the poop and the stick bug born out of a bird poop eggPhoto: Kobe UniversityThis wouldn't be the first time a living thing passed through a digestive tract as a part of the circle of life.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CHICAGO — For her first major survey in the United States, Otobong Nkanga shows her largest set of works on paper to date, revealing a practice invested in seeing the earth as a dynamic living thing.
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Of course, you could just set the rule that we take one capture of that page and be done with it, but his point was that the web is a living thing and it only becomes more slippery over time.
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The machines have assembled a unified army, growing so fast that evolution couldn't keep nature in balance and molecular nanotechnology eats away at every living thing on earth, slowly consuming all life and turning our home into a grey planet.
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Beautiful Instagram photos of sun-soaked, greenery-filled rooms, combined with the realization that taking care of a living thing is emotionally fulfilling, are making millennials buy up Swiss cheese-like Monstera plants and resilient ZZ plants with renewed vigor.
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If you're going to force a dachshund and a Chihuahua to hug and kiss to make a hypercute mutant for your amusement, you are beyond considerations of cruelty; you have accepted your dominion over every living thing, and silly clothes too.
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When she says that she doesn't want to be a living thing, that she wants to be uploaded into a machine, and that her goal is basically—as far as they can tell—to [commit] suicide, they struggle with it.
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The sun and other stars emit radiation called Galactic Cosmic Rays, or G.C.R.s, that react in the atmosphere with nitrogen and change the levels of carbon 14, which is taken up by every living thing and becomes a tracer for cosmic ray levels.
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"One may think of a plant as a brush stroke, as a single stitch of embroidery; but one must never forget that it is a living thing," reads a small, white-and-green placard sheltered beneath the fronds of an Everglades palm.
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That white speck and the immense, veiny network of energy streams surrounding it offer a vision of the immanent — a new life — and the humbling reminder that the fullness, complexity, and unpredictable trajectory of any living thing begin with a mere cluster of cells.
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Real maths requires a necessary rigidity, at least at the level most of us study it to, but World Cup maths is fluid to the end, a living thing whose outcomes are often changing in real time as more salient facts come to light.
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If you were to boil all of biology down to a simple equation, it would be that DNA makes RNA, which makes proteins, which are what make every living thing you can see, smell, touch, and taste (and a lot of things you can't).
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The Cavaliers may or may not have that answer, but be assured that the rest of the league—and, if you want to get Spiritual about it, the restless essence of basketball as a living thing—is hard at work on whatever comes next.
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" As the artist describes the project, "Inspired by the literary concept of the unreliable narrator and the medieval bestiary, which gave every living thing a spiritual purpose, The Unreliable Bestiary is an ark of stories about animals, our relationships with them, and the worlds they inhabit.
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Basically, we have three paired entries in this puzzle — at 24 and 91A, 31 and 115A, and 48 and 105A — that each comprise a completely real, successfully elusive living thing and its purported locale, the place this wily creature would like you to believe it resides.
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She said it was as if the decades they'd spent together -- the moves from Puerto Rico to the mainland and back; the hours they both worked as nurses; the three children they raised -- hovered in the room, a tangible, living thing, and then became part of her.
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Whether your friend is an experienced plant queen whose apartment is already covered with vibrant vines or if it's her 2020 goal to try her hand at nurturing another living thing, there's a plant subscription box out there that will make the perfect present for her.
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But as CRISPR-Cas9 technology has made gene editing more accessible in recent years — allowing scientists to edit, cut out, and replace genes in any living thing more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently than previous gene editing tools — scientists have been grappling with how best to proceed.
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We are the only species out there that consumes the lactation of another species; we are also the only living thing that turns love into a purchasable venture, and the only ones who believe in a fat little man flying around with a weapon, shooting people at random.
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Digital culture is now awash in memes that communicate our sense of isolation with self-aware jokes, many of which follow a specific formula: an image (often of an animal or non-living thing) plus a short piece of text that allows the poster to avoid significant vulnerability.
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Every Disney princess in the parks gets periodically refreshed, a concession to the Disney princess brand as a living thing; every new parade is an excuse for a costume variant, and the occasional "special edition" refresh gives kids (and collectors) a brand new line of merchandise to buy.
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Channel-hopping over the last two weeks was a ridiculous pleasure; every press of the blue button a guarantee of something genuinely beautiful – something that celebrated the pinnacle of human physical and mental achievement, showcasing the peak artistry of the most complex living thing known to exist in the universe.
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I didn't grieve when I saw the real corpse flower at the end of its cycle (instead, I Instagrammed it), but when confronted with Marrin's larger-than-life series, I felt a tinge of sorrow for a living thing that works for a decade to blossom, only to collapse after a day.
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" On his site, he explains that Space That Never Was is based on a theme that has enraptured him since he was a child: "The idea of going out there, visiting other worlds, seeing places that no living thing has seen before, exploring the unknown - for me, all of that was always truly magical.
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"What we want to create is sort of a living thing that puts companies on notice," said Martin Whittaker, chief executive of Just Capital, a nonpartisan group that has compiled data on how 90 public corporations plan to spend their tax savings, and which will send letters to 875 companies on Wednesday seeking more information on those plans.
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My mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and I have seen up close what it looks like when a living thing is dying because its brain is bleeding and there's nowhere for the pooled blood to go, no way to keep the blood from crowding out the living cells of thought, the living cells of self.
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The Jain sat on a cushion in an impeccable house, impeccable only on the inside, of course: Outside was a heap of roiling, shifting garbage, a heap that seemed a living thing with rats burrowing through it—swimming, really, floating in an unreal paradise of gnawables with pigs pushing aside layers of plastic and rotten trembling fruit with their snouts.
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They will charge us with having culpably allowed the destruction of some of those records of Creation which we had it in our power to preserve; and while professing to regard every living thing as the direct handiwork and best evidence of a Creator, yet, with a strange inconsistency, seeing many of them perish irrecoverably from the face of the earth, uncared for and unknown.
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Castaway, too, I lie again, feignI can bring a dying thing back, keep digging& hoping I'll plumb the sophic root, hereIn south-central LA. Every day, we scaleThis barrier reef of chained links & lapThe daisies I imagine doing backstrokesIn what was once a pool, bring compost& water, keep digging & hoping to playGod, call back from certain extinctionSome living thing we assume we'll always haveTo waste, because you said we must.
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As I've written previously, Pruitt has frequently invoked a Bible verse often used by proponents of this school of thought to legitimize loosening environmental restrictions: Genesis 1:28, in which God tells his new human creations, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" As EPA chief, Pruitt was involved in persuading Donald Trump to leave the Paris climate accords and has spearheaded a number of rollbacks of Obama-era initiatives, including reversing the Clean Power Plan, as well as smaller repeals like on a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been shown to cause developmental problems in children.
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