What is Nature?

I've been asking this question of people who have attended word-coinings for the Human Nature Dictionary. Here are answers to date:

• A destination, a vacation spot
• An integral part of my body and soul
• Animals
• Ant farm in school
• As a child: everything that was studiable
• Being able to breathe and relax
• Carbon-based life
• Climate
• Elemental
• Emotional association of being outside, exposed, buffeted by wind and waves
• Great sweeping forest
• Growing things vs. static things
• I grew up in the country, nature was all around
• Irreplaceable
• It varies from culture to culture
• Living things
• Mediated by language (I was a suburban child)
• Mountains
• Nature encyclopedia
• Not controllable, just is
• Not man-made
• Ocean, rocks, trees, mountains (maybe man, but not really)
• Open air
• Parks and urban gardens in a city
• Plants
• Processes like cell division, entropy
• Refuge
• Rocks
• Sky
• Smells
• Soil
• Something that's a combination of things that are elemental, basic
• Something we didn’t make
• Something we learn about in museums
• Specific place
• That which exists without human intervention
• Things that go back to the soil
• Trees
• Trees, grass
• Undeveloped
• Unpredictable
• Untouched by humans
• Water
• We can't control
• Weather
• Wild
• Wind, drizzle
• Woods, wildness