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:

    “No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
    To darken nature and be summer woods—”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)