CONCEPT OF NATURE

Concept of Nature

Concept of Nature

How would you define nature?

Nature is the living world, including plants, animals, fungi, and all micro-organisms, as well as naturally formed features of the landscape, such as mountains and rivers. Nature can refer to the phenomena of the physical world and life in general. Nature is, for example, the essence and the characteristic properties of each individual, available to all and everything that makes up the universe, virtue and quality of things and the natural force or activity, as opposed to something miraculous or supernatural.

The most common use of the term refers to all living things that are humans, animals, plants and phenomena that occur naturally, that is without action of man or artificial means such as rain or snowfall. In this sense, the planet Earth is home to nature. When the ecology talks about the protection of nature, is calling for the preservation of living organisms and ecosystems that make up the planet (Margulis and Dorian, 1995). The ecosystem concept can appoint a dynamic system with relative autonomy that consists of a natural community and its associated physical environment. Usually nature does not include man-made objects or human intervention, unless qualified in ways that refers to, for example with phrases like "human nature" or "the totality of nature." Nature is also distinguished from the supernatural (Margulis and Dorian, 1995). The ecosystem includes the interactions between organisms that form the community and the energy and material flows that run through it.

Nature is equivalent to the physical universe, natural world or the material world. Nature is the phenomena of the physical world and also to life. Usually does not include man-made objects or human intervention, unless qualified in ways that refers to, for example with phrases like “human nature” or “The totality of nature.”

Nature is also distinguished from the supernatural. It extends from the subatomic to the galactic. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe is a more recent acquired ever wider use in the development of the scientific method in recent centuries.

Was nature important to you as a child? Why or why not? Give examples.

Yes, the nature was important to me as a child, the reason of this statement is that the nature has various meanings. It refers to the essence or innate quality of a thing that which makes it what it is. An example of this would be human nature; the universal characteristics that are common to all people. The concept of nature has multiple meanings; it has different ideas about nature have shaped both ideas and theories about cities and attempts to redesign the physical spaces of urban life (Pidwirny, 2006). The concept of nature as a whole, the universe is physical, a more recent concept that acquired ever wider use in the development of scientific method in recent modern centuries. Nature is no longer understood by geographers as ontologically pure: rather, it tends to be conceived in terms of a set of hybrid relations between physical ...