Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the
natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe.
"Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in
general. Manufactured objects and human interaction are not considered part of
nature unless qualified in ways such as "human nature" or "the whole of
nature". Nature is generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in
scale from the subatomic to the galactic.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "the course of
things, natural character."[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] This is shown in the first written use of the word φύσις, in
connection with a plant.[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" 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. This more traditional concept of natural things which can
still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and the
artificial, with the latter being understood as that which has been brought
into being by a human or human-like consciousness or mind.