I often get confused from the various opinions in various threads as to what we actually think about the word ‘Nature’? Making our city a Botanical Garden, making our city a Zoological Garden? I strongly believe we won’t be able to get the meaning of ‘Nature’ or will be able to be even a below av…

[image] lynkos: the word “nature” was invented to describe everything which is not human or human-derived Where did you get that information from? From what I could find, “nature” comes from the Latin word “natura”, the action noun of “nascor” which means “to be born”. Also, all languages I …

Depending on the source, Mahatma Gandhi is credited with a quote similar to this: “It’s dangerous to confuse the words ‘natural’ and ‘habitual.’ We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.” We wondered if your skepticism for narrowly defined words i…

[image] jhbratton: I just want to raise the issue that if we say humans are part of nature and everything we do is natural, that excuses oil pollution, plastic litter, global warming, clearing forests to make space for cities, mining etc. etc. They are all just natural events, no different from …

[image] jasonhernandez74: swathing from head to toe in artificial materials This is a little unrelated, but I have an expensive coat made from duck down and fox pelt. It’s really warm, cozy, and good looking on top of it all, but there’s one problem: it can’t get wet. Like, why? Those animals…

[image] jasonhernandez74: jhbratton makes a good point in that such claims have, in fact, been made by exploitative interests That is correct and it is definitely important to keep that in mind, especially when talking to people not much interested in the natural world and/or its scientific e…

[image] lynkos: But is man part of nature? Well, actually I don’t believe he can be, simply because the word “nature” was invented to describe everything which is not human or human-derived. I’m pretty sure that the usage refeŕing to innate qualities (e.g. human nature) was the original meani…

The now-closed thread So,…What are you wearing? was very confusing to me. A community of nature enthusiasts, and yet the majority took great pains to shield themselves thoroughly from nature, swathing from head to toe in artificial materials, as if to avoid all physical contact with the nonhuman wo…

The first thing you learn when you start translating for a living is that you can never accurately translate a word unless you know the context and, of course, “nature” is no exception. So while the word and its derivatives can, of course, have a number of other meanings, in the context of this disc…

Henry David Thoreau said: “I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I sho…

Livestock make up 62% of the world’s mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%. ‘Nature’ is the 4%.

What does the word 'Nature' include?

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jnstuart June 5, 2024, 2:49pm 37

Habit is another word that has a human application (actually more than one) but a somewhat different use for non-human organisms.

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What does the word 'Nature' include?

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