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Multiple meanings for the same six letters that spell: nature, may lead to confusion.

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Consider nature as a word that --at a minumum-- may have four distinct yet related meanings.

Emerson | Darwin | Mayr | Ehrlich | Faulkner | Bronowski | Tattersall | Margulis | Wilson | Einstein's equation | Thomas

Essay about contemporary attitudes.

These interrelated conceptualizations or the four meanings are Greek, if not earlier. In orgin and influence the meanings we derive from the use of the words: natural, nature, second nature or naturally.

 

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As seen from the moon, the Earth as life's natural oasis.

"Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the the stars to our will. "

Ezra Pound

Nature as virtue; sisters of the order that is at the essence of existence.

"…the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836 .

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