Dec 25 2008
NATURE
Nature is a very common word used in day to day life. Mother - Nature, Physical - Nature, Human - Nature, Natural phylosophy, Natural environment these are terms often used. What does Nature in all these words mean? The answer to this could be deep rooted but let’s understand it in it’s simplest sense!Nature is the physical world around us. The plants, animals, reptiles, birds, micro -oraganisms, sand, beaches, waterfalls, oceans, rivers, me, you and everything you could see and think of between the subatomic to the galatic is NATURE. Isn’t that simple? So everything around us presently is nature. The word Nature could have many meanings although accoring to the dictionary, it would be “ The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized or A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe. Now that we understand the meaning of the word. Don’t we need to know how the word originated?Well, Nature is derieved from the Latin name ‘Natura’ which was the exact translation of the Greek word ‘Physis’ which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants and animals and all other similar beings. But today when we use the word nature it means the physical universe itself.
