Define nature...?
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I had a debate about this once, leading to my SN naturalplastics.
I define nature as 'any of a number of processes that can be performed without human interaction.'
Since humans are inherantly artificial.
Something Natural. Organic. Huh? Huh? Huh? Good answer huh?
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The term generally does not include manufactured objects and human interaction unless qualified in ways such as, e.g., "human nature" or "the whole of nature". Nature is also generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the galactic.
The word "nature" derives from the Latin word natura, or "the course of things, natural character."[1] Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.[g] This is well shown in the first written use of the word φύσις, in connection with a plant.[a] The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.[b][c]
Nature is the universe and everything contained within it, whether we think of it as good or bad. Nature is everything around us. It is the environment in which we live. The first entry here says that everything human is artificial. This is a frighteningly incorrect view. Are we robots or artificial intelligence created and placed here? No, we are from and a part of nature.
A friend of mine argues that even though humans are degrading the environment in many ways, you can't really argue that it's a natural thing. It is what has occured on earth and is natural. It is the point at which we have arrived as human beings on an earth that created us and our abilities to destroy it. It's nice to think of nature as being birds chirping on a hillside in springtime, but it's also the Exxon Valdez spilling it's oil.
everything that we and civilization ,are not anymore
the Environment ,animals ,forrests ,rivers lakes mountains,birds
,what make our Air water and climate
it too much you continue by yourself
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The term generally does not include manufactured objects and human interaction unless qualified in ways such as, e.g., "human nature" or "the whole of nature". Nature is also generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the galactic.
The word "nature" derives from the Latin word natura, or "the course of things, natural character." Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. This is well shown in the first written use of the word φύσις, in connection with a plant. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.
Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. It is often taken to mean the "natural environment" or wilderness – wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. This more traditional concept of natural things which can still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and the artificial, with the latter being understood as that which has been brought into being by a human or human-like consciousness or mind.
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