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 life in general. It varies from the subatomic to the cosmic.
The nature of the word is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition," and in ancient times, literally means "birth." Natura is a Latin translation from the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals and other features of the developing world of their own volition. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several additions to the original concept, but started with some basic applications of word φύσις pre-Socratic philosophers, and has been gaining currency since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in recent centuries.
Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" may refer to the general scope of the various types of plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects, the way in which certain types of things exist and change of their own volition, such as climate and geology of the earth, and matter and energy of all these things are made. Often means the "natural environment" or wilderness wild animals, rocks, forests, beaches, and generally things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. For, example, manufactured objects and human interaction are generally not considered part of nature unless qualified as, for example, "human nature" or "the whole of nature." This traditional concept of natural things that can still be found today implies a distinction between natural and artificial, the artificial with the understanding that has been brought into existence of human consciousness, or mind human. Depending on the context, the term "natural" could also be distinguished from the unnatural, the supernatural, or what is made by man (man).
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