Nalini Nadkarni

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

American Scientist

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

American Businessman

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

American Poet

Dennis Kucinich

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

American Politician

Norman Davies

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it.

British Historian

Ayrton Senna

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Brazilian Celebrity

Shirley Temple

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

American Actress

Huey Newton

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

American Activist

Mahatma Gandhi

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.

Indian Leader

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

French Philosopher

Encircle can literally mean creating a circular shape around something.

Literal Circle

Often used in military or competitive contexts to describe a strategy to trap or isolate.

Hostile Action

Can be used metaphorically to indicate a situation where someone is overwhelmed or trapped.

Figurative Use

Can express a sense of protection, love, or inclusion when referring to people or pets.

Emotional Bond

It can be used in a non-physical sense, to denote keeping ideas or feelings within.

Not Literal

Used to suggest highlighting something important in a visual context.

Highlighting Significance

Suggests creating a boundary or edge that distinguishes an area or object from its surroundings.

Boundaries

 maybe get inside track that was fun nowadays there are hundreds of links to choose room I can go literally anywhere in the world I think since I was already in Ecuador I just decided to click on the word tropical that took me to this you know wet and warm band of the tropics that encircles the earth now that's the Tropic of Cancer on the north

Reinventing the...

 Then one by one, she would encircle these thorns with dark ink. A week later, the patient would come back for a follow-up examination. Now, I'm aware that I should not be saying such things in front of an audience of scholars and scientists, but the truth is, of all the people

The politics of fiction...

 in a direction of hope. We know that trees are static entities when we look at their trunks. But if trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities

Nalini Nadkarni: Life...

 which weakens everyone eventually. As for the other challenges, they had also been illusions. The drinking horn was filled with the ocean, and Thor had drained enough to cause the tides. The cat was the serpent that encircles the world,

The myth of Thor's...

 really mysterious gravitational pull on me. Even as a child I would just look at a painting of Kyoto and feel I recognized it; I knew it before I ever laid eyes on it. But it's also, as you all know, a beautiful city encircled by hills,

The Art of Stillness PIPE...

 of the few places in the world we have an opportunity to see something like this as the attack began nancy recognized the members of a transient pod joined by other transient groups they encircled the gray whales blocking their escape

Killer Whales vs. Gray...

 of the few places in the world we have an opportunity to see something like this as the attack began Nancy recognized the members of a transient pod joined by other transient groups they encircle the gray whales blocking their escape

Whale Migration Marathon...

 village before he can leave the country so what can I do but agree and then there I am standing there encircled by his entire family in the empty space where the house will be built and there's a matriarch reciting what are

What forgiveness can...

 Each of the six sides is believed to be the result of jet streams, which all encircle a massive hurricane. Because of Saturn's inhospitable environment, the planet cannot support life - but some of its moons might.

Saturn 101 PIPE National...

 the adults encircle their yard it's an impenetrable wall of gray