Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic. The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis , which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.
Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to
geology and wildlife. 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. It is often taken to mean the "natural environment"
or wilderness–wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general
those things that have not been substantially altered by human
intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. For example,
manufactured objects and human interaction generally are not considered
part of nature, unless qualified as, for example, "human nature" or "the
whole of nature". This more traditional concept of natural things which
can still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and
the artificial, with the artificial being understood as that which has
been brought into being by a human consciousness or a human mind.
Depending on the particular context, the term "natural" might also be
distinguished from the unnatural, the supernatural, or synthetic. It is
capitalized when used as a proper noun, as in 'the nature of Nature'.
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic. The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis , which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.
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