Definition of Nature

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Nature

The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence.

The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.

Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.

Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.

Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

Natural affection or reverence.

Constitution or quality of mind or character.

To endow with natural qualities.

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Nature Quotations

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis

Nature Translations

nature in Afrikaans is karakter, natuur
nature in Danish is natur, karakter
nature in Dutch is karakter, geaardheid, aard
nature in German is Natur, Natur, Beschaffenheit
nature in Italian is indole
nature in Latin is natura, qualitas, ingenium
nature in Norwegian is natur
nature in Spanish is naturaleza
nature in Swedish is natur, beskaffenhet

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