Nature, the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general
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It was later used by the Church Fathers, in particular Saint Augustine of Hippo, who wrote that Christians should live a life of peregrinatio in the material world while awaiting the Kingdom of God.
The first sees it as a sign that one is too attached to the material world, while Sufism took it to represent a feeling of personal insufficiency, that one was not getting close enough to God and did not or could not do enough for God in this world.
Richard Dawkins has criticized Gould's position on the grounds that religion does not, and cannot, be divorced from scientific matters or the material world.
Leslie West covered the song on the 2003 album, Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison.
In September 2009, the shop has been reconstructed as part of London's Tate Modern's exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World.