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  2. Nature (essay) - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Emerson's transparent eyeball metaphor in "Nature" by Christopher Pearse Cranch, ca. 1836-1838. Emerson uses spirituality as a major theme in the essay. Emerson believed in re-imagining the divine as something large and visible, which he referred to as nature; such an idea is known as transcendentalism, in which one perceives a new God and a new body, and becomes one with his ...

  3. John Burroughs - Wikipedia

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    John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. [1] The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.

  4. Nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is an inherent character or constitution, [1] particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. ... for example, "human nature" or "the whole of nature".

  5. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, thunder, ... natural phenomena have been observed by a series of countless events as a feature created by nature.

  6. Nature writing - Wikipedia

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    This books concentrates on the origins of American nature writing. Trimble, Stephen, "Words From the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing". Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1995 (revised edition). ISBN 978-0874172645. This book is a representative collection of essays which goes over the contemporary part of nature writing.

  7. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically . Natural patterns include symmetries , trees , spirals , meanders , waves , foams , tessellations , cracks and stripes. [ 1 ]

  8. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

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    Nature versus nurture is a long-standing ... In the Essay, Locke specifically ... are another component of the nature–nurture debate. A classic example of gene ...

  9. Nature (Tobler essay) - Wikipedia

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    The first issue of Nature, in which the essay is incorrectly attributed to Goethe "Nature" (German: Die Natur) is an essay by Georg Christoph Tobler which is often incorrectly attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1783 in the Tiefurt Journal. [1] Tobler wrote the essay after repeated conversations with Goethe. [1]