nature

English: United States Geological Survey photo of 1982 eruption of Galungung (with lightning strikes). Cropped. This stratovolcano with a lava dome is located in western Java. Its first eruption in 1822 produced a 22-km-long mudflow that killed 4,000 people. The second eruption in 1894 caused extensive property loss. The slide depicts a spectacular view of lightning strikes during a third eruption on December 3, 1982, which resulted in 68 deaths. A fourth eruption occurred in 1984. Source Caption: Galunggung, Indonesia;07.25 S 108.05 E;2,168 m elevation

Español: United States Geological foto de la Encuesta de 1982 la erupción de Galungung (con un rayo cae). Recortada. Este volcán con un domo de lava se encuentra en el oeste de Java. Su primera erupción en 1822, produjo a 22 km de largo flujo de lodo que mató a 4.000 personas. La segunda erupción en 1894 causó la pérdida de propiedad extensiva. La diapositiva muestra una vista espectacular de la caída de rayos durante una tercera erupción el 3 de diciembre de 1982, que resultó en 68 muertes. La erupción de un cuarto se produjo en 1984. Leyenda Fuente: Galunggung, Indonesia; 07,25 S 108,05 E; 2.168 m de altitud

defination of nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural, physical, ormaterial world or universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from thesubatomic to the cosmic.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth".^[1] Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.^[2][3]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, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.^[4][5]

Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geologyand wildlife. Nature may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. It is often taken to mean the "natural environment" or wilderness–wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. For example, manufactured objects and human interaction generally are not considered part of nature, unless qualified as, for example, "human nature" or "the whole of nature". This more traditional concept of natural things which can still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and the artificial, with the artificial being understood as that which has been brought into being by a humanconsciousness or a human mind. Depending on the particular context, the term "natural" might also be distinguished from the unnatural, thesupernatural, or synthetic.