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.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". 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. The co

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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Snapper
Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping
Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Miss Maple's Seeds
Tiptoe Joe
Stripes of All Types
The Deer Watch
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Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
Being Henry David
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Forest Has a Song: Poems
Ol' Mama Squirrel
Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers

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