A natural material is any product or physical matter that comes from plants, animals, or the ground. Minerals and the metals that can be extracted from them (without further modification) are also considered to belong into this category. Types include:
- Biotic materials
- Wood (rattan, bamboo, bark etc.)
- Natural fibers (wool, cotton, flax, hemp, jute, kapok, kenaf, moss, etc.)
- Inorganic material
- Stone (flint, granite, obsidian, sandstone, sand, gems, glass, etc.)
- Native metal (copper, bronze, iron, gold, silver, etc.)
- Composites (clay, porcelain, plasticine, etc.)
- Other natural materials.
- Soil
Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or materials:
“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“He was no specialist except in the relation of things.... He took most of his materials at second hand.... But no matter who mined the gold, the image and superscription are his.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)