Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife. However, a vitalist vision of nature, closer to the presocratic one, got reborn at the same time, especially after Charles Darwin. With the Industrial revolution, nature increasingly became seen as the part of reality deprived from intentional intervention: it was hence considered as sacred by some traditions ( Rousseau, American transcendentalism) or a mere decorum for divine providence or human history ( Hegel, Marx).
The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers (though this word had a dynamic dimension then, especially for Heraclitus), and has steadily gained currency ever since.ĭuring the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws. In ancient philosophy, natura is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The word nature is borrowed from the Old French nature and is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant " birth". Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. South Penghu Marine National Park of Taiwan, showing the wonder of nature
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