Nature

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:

    “His life was gentle, and the elements
    So mixed in him that nature might stand up
    And say to all the world “This was a man.””
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Landor, not that I doubt your word,
    That you had strove with none
    At seventy-five and had deferred
    To nature and art alone;
    It is rather that at thirty-two
    From us I see them part....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “This is not how nature speaks.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)