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Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic 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". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. 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 by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage continued during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries. Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife. Source
Mother Nature
(sometimes known as Mother Earth
or the Earth-Mother) is a common
personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects
of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. Images of women
representing mother earth, and mother nature, are timeless. In prehistoric
times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity,
and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Algonquian,
Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Germanic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian
religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions. The
believers and leaders of Enlightenment had to separate nature from God. This
led to the feminization of nature, the creation of the word: Mother Nature.
Boyle suggested that examination of man is an examination of God. Source
