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.
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him,”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 11:14.
“Just as a chemist “isolates” a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)