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This was against the dominant hauntology by the specter of life often found in metaphors used by architects -- "life-like" or "nature-like."
Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012
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The part that got me was the central theme, which was (if I remember correctly) that businesses exist in a natural (ie. nature-like) environment, and if we observe what happens in nature there is competition, and there is also symbiosis.
video: capitalism hits the fan Bill Kerr 2009
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They include nature-like greens and blues as well as natural earthy neutrals.
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They include nature-like greens and blues as well as natural earthy neutrals.
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Runoff can be captured for later use in natural or nature-like ways, or in manmade structures.
7: Water resources 1996
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Runoff can be captured for later use in natural or nature-like ways, or in manmade structures.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996
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Eligible either in water or oil, it is admirably adapted for autumn foliage, where a quiet, subdued, nature-like green is required.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The fine nature-like greens, which have lasted so well in some of the pictures of the Italian schools, appear to have been compounded of ultramarine, or ultramarine ashes and yellow.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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But that they are of superlative excellence, brilliant, delicate, accurate, life-like, and nature-like, is what none will dispute.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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In the South and in arid countries, greensward is not the prevailing feature of the landscape, and in these regions the landscape design may take on a wholly different character, if the work is to be nature-like.
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