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:

    “I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
    —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    “All nature wears one universal grin.”
    —Henry Fielding (1707–1754)