Word Finder - nature

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The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. (Compare ecosystem.)

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Nature never lies (i.e. tells untruths).

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The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.

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The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.

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Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

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Kind, sort; character; quality.

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Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

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Natural affection or reverence.

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To endow with natural qualities.

This is your nature, you just don't know it yet.

It was in his nature, and it was something that wasn't going to change.

It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Nature was at her peak, blending the wild blooms with various shades of green.

The tall trees were draped in a white robe that had drifted to the earth, not snarled their way downward like the wind driven Eastern storms where snow was a dirty word, not the magical hush that mother nature bestowed on the mountains of the west.

He knows Nature but as a robber.

Part of it was simply his nature - and that part was sweet and selfless.

Sulphur is of an oily and fiery nature; in combination with salt by its fiery nature it arouses a desire in the latter by means of which it attracts mercury, seizes it, holds it, and in combination produces other bodies.

Nature found a way to prevent that.

If Rhyn can learn to overcome his nature, she can to.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Every deity has a different nature and source for their magic.

But I cannot imagine who made Mother Nature, can you?

It is not in your nature to care for anything beyond you, she said, frown deepening.

I have studied human nature for the entirety of my existence.

On account, probably, of the inhospitable nature of the shore the northern portion of the protectorate appears to have been little subject to hostile invasion.

Stymieing her sunny nature now was a small sacrifice compared to seeing it snuffed forever.

By nature, he didn't smile, but would he turn away from her or tolerate her?

They give me a new sense of the variety and capacity of that nature which is our common dwelling.

The tourists were left below and Dean was alone save the sounds of nature on the rocky rutted path as his Jeep's tires clawed upward.

Alex would see it as an opportunity to help – simply because of his nature.

From this capability of natural development (which already involves a teleological idea) Kant distinguishes the power of moral self-development or selfliberation from the dominion of nature, the gradual realization of which constitutes human history or progress.

The side of this process which Schelling worked out most completely is the negative side, that is, nature.

The response made by the adult parts of plants, to which reference has been made, is brought about by a mechanism similar in nature though rather differently applied.

In spite of the statement that the nature of the organism is the most important factor in variation, the tendency amongst evolutionists has been to take much more account of the influence of external conditions.

He went on to add judiciously that elevation changed Mother Nature's rules about the weather every few hundred feet.

Dean did the same, hoping its eighteen inch girth was sufficient to secure the two damn fools who were testing it as their sole mooring against the natural forces of nature.

His mind pictured Cynthia Byrne, perhaps awake and alone with her grief, listening to Mother Nature's fury.

Billie and Willie were journeymen criminals, and both had spent time in jail for a number of offenses, mostly physical in nature.

Carmen was obedient – how much was in her nature and how much was the result of strict upbringing was hard to determine.

And Dad, worn out from working the farm all day; disgruntled by years of fighting a losing battle with nature - of never having enough money to take care of his family properly.

It was in his nature to take command, and yet he felt overwhelmed by what had happened.

Damian's nature was not like Darian's and their father's, but he'd shouldered the responsibility to protect humanity and battle the Black God without question.

Jonathan had a pleasant nature as well.

And the nature of this reality again can neither be consistently represented as a fixed and hard substance nor as an unalterable something, but only as a fixed order of recurrence of continually changing events or impressions.

Let us consider some common phenomena in the light of these rival theories as to the nature of matter.

Nature and mind (which are the two sides, or polar directions, of the one absolute) are each viewed as an activity advancing by an uninterrupted succession of stages.

Vico held God to be the ruler of the world of nations, but ruling, not as the providence of the middle ages by means of continued miracles, but as He rules nature, by means of natural laws.

Vico was the first thinker who asked, Why have we a science of nature, but no science of history?

All the phenomena, forces and laws of nature, together with mental conceptions, were alike personified.

It would have been well if Kossuth had had something more of Gdrgei's calculated ruthlessness, for, as has been truly said, the revolutionary power he had seized could only be held by revolutionary means; but he was by nature soft-hearted and always merciful; though often audacious, he lacked decision in dealing with men.

He, too, was a disciple of Rousseau, believed in the education of nature, and allowed his Sophie to wander at her own sweet will.

She keeps her eye on the object, but adds, like Wordsworth, the visionary gleam, and receives from nature but what she herself gives.

It is by no means certain that he made the remark often attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.

The nature of these structures has been much disputed.

In the cases where the observations were confined to a few months the representative nature of the results is more doubtful.

On his return to the capital Peter, in order to see what progress his son had made in mechanics and mathematics, asked him to draw something of a technical nature for his inspection.

Leo was by nature highly excitable and almost insanely passionate, though at the same time strictly honourable, unselfish, and in private intercourse even gentle.

The connexion in Roman law between the ideas of equity, nature, natural law and the law common to all nations, and the influence of the Stoical philosophy on their development, are fully discussed in the third chapter of the work we have referred to.

Between this point and the time when equity became settled as a portion of the legal system, having fixed principles of its own, various views of its nature seem to have prevailed.