Most Read This Week In 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 con
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Nature"

Wild Dark Shore
Heartwood
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Wood at Midwinter
Go as a River
Once There Were Wolves
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Raising Hare: A Memoir
The Island of Missing Trees
North Woods
Migrations
Open Throat
Playground
Bog Queen
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
The Mighty Red
Whale Fall
The Colony
The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot, #3)
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Mountain in the Sea
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Black Woods Blue Sky
Birnam Wood
Evergreen Chase (Shady Hollow #3.5)
The Hike
A Shining
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
The Seed Keeper
Is a River Alive?
How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)
Miss Benson's Beetle
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Bewilderment
Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett, #24)
Death Valley
The Impossible Thing
The Vaster Wilds
I Am Rebel
Odder
The Eyes & the Impossible
Whalefall
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Don't Trust Fish
The Place of Tides
Dusk
The Botanist's Assistant
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
The Light Pirate
Beartooth
The Trouble with Heroes
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The Final Hunt (The Final Hunt, #1)
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
The Book of I
Two Degrees
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Beasts of the Sea
Mirror Lake (Shady Hollow, #3)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
The Bear
How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
Bear
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Couples Trip
A Children's Bible
The Guide
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
I miei stupidi intenti
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Ash's Cabin
In Ascension
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)
Helm
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Snow Thief
The Music of Bees
La felicità del lupo
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller
White Holes
Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)
The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)
The Couch Potato (The Food Group #4)
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
The Nature of Disappearing
Small Game
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Breathless
The Wild Robot on the Island
Burn
The Leaf Thief

Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home ag ...more
Mary Oliver

Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of n ...more
Albert Einstein

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