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What is nature? I've been asking this question of people who have attended [[Events|word-coinings]] for the Human Nature Dictionary. Here are | What is nature? I've been asking this question of people who have attended [[Events|word-coinings]] for the Human Nature Dictionary. Here are answers to date: | ||
* A destination, a vacation spot | * A destination, a vacation spot | ||
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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