Thursday, May 6, 2010

What is Nature

Definitions of nature on the Web:
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized; "it is the nature of fire to burn"; "the true nature of jealousy"
a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe; "the laws of nature"; "nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women"
the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.; "they tried to preserve nature as they found it"
the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others"
a particular type of thing; "problems of this type are very difficult to solve"; "he's interested in trains and things of that nature"; "matters of a personal nature" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Nature is a word used in two major sets of ways, which are inter-connected in a complex way, for reasons related to the history of science, epistemology and metaphysics, particularly in Western Civilization.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(philosophy)
Nature is the twenty-eighth full-length album by Russian multi-instrumentalist musician Senmuth. It was independently released in 2007.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(Senmuth_album)
Nature is a prominent British scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. Most scientific journals are now highly specialized, and Nature is among the few journals (the other weekly journals Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences are also prominent examples) that ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)
Nature is innate behavior (behavior not learned or influenced by the environment), character or essence, especially of a human. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(innate)
Savagnin or Savagnin Blanc is a variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries. It is mostly grown in the Jura region of France, where it makes the famous vin jaune and vin de paille. It has a definite flavour of nuts.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturé
Jermain Baxter (born December 5, 1972), better known as Nature, is an American rapper, best known for his association with fellow Queensbridge-born rapper Nas. Nature went to school with Nas, who first took notice of his talent for rhyming.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(rapper)
Nature is a long-running wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. It has been distributed to United States public ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(TV_series)
Nature is a long-running documentary programme on BBC Radio 4, covering wildlife and environmental matters.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(radio_programme)
Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(essay)
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature

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