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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Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
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Autumn: The Story of a Season
Carrie the Tree Fairy: A Fall Fairy Tale
Wild Dark Shore
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Heartwood
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Whalefall
Under Story
Once There Were Wolves
Go as a River
When There Are Wolves Again
The Island of Missing Trees
Raising Hare: A Memoir
The Wild Beneath
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North Woods
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Overstory
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Walden or, Life in the Woods
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
H is for Hawk
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Silent Spring
Into the Wild
Where the Crawdads Sing
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