Nature (disambiguation)

The primary meanings of the common noun nature include the following:

• Nature is the natural world, especially in its essential form, untainted by human influence.
  • Mother Nature is the personification of nature as a maternal figure.
  • Naturalism (philosophy): the philosophical stance based on the concept of nature in the materialistic and pragmatic sense that rejects the validity of explanations making use of entities inaccessible to natural science (compare with supernatural).
• When relating to a human or another living organism, nature is innate behaviour, character, or essence.
  • "Nature" is shorthand for one side in the nature versus nurture debate.

Nature is also used as a name or title:

• The journal Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals and was first published on November 4, 1869.
• The BBC Radio 4 programme Nature.
• The French journal La Nature was founded in 1873 by Gaston Tissandier.
• Nature is an essay and collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Nature is the title of a television program that has been broadcast on United States public television channels since the 1990s.
• Nature is an African-American rapper from Queensbridge, New York City, a former associate of Nas.