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From The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Tourism
The totality of physical things considered distinct from the influences, activities and constructions of humanity. It is a complex concept with multiple meanings, but in contemporary popular discourses, nature is most often understood and used in one of three ways ( Castree and Braun, 2001 ; Demeritt, 2002 ). ‘External’ nature refers to what is perceived to be the original and inherent material aspects of the world: the self-evident and so-called natural environment , inclusive of non-living and living (albeit non-human) components. In this view, nature is raw and pristine, autonomous from society and associated with conventional distinctions such as rural/urban, country/city and wilderness/civilization. ‘Intrinsic’ nature refers to an unchanging essential quality or attribute that is discernable in some thing or some being. This conception of nature finds expression in references to the inherent characteristics of an entity, such as human nature, or an event, such as a hurricane or…
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'Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai: the design of an...
At first glance the concept of nature (and of the natural) seems to suggest something opposed diametrically to the urban: if the former conjures up a vision of untrammelled, primal wildness untouched by human agency, the latter connotes all that is modern, artificial, and socio-technically…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
The concept of nature is one of the most central and most diverse concepts of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. According to Isaiah Berlin, “when seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors say ‘nature,’ we can translate that into ‘life’ perfectly easily,” and some scholars have registered “no…
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From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
Nature stands in contrast to the artificial world, that is, things made by human beings. It refers to the whole universe, and to the whole of time. Philosophical views of nature have fluctuated: it is sometimes seen as random, messy and imperfect. The ‘ ROMANTIC ’ writers and philosophers such as…
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From A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
“Nature” in Greek ( physis ) and Latin ( natura ) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand alone, perhaps by means of phrases such as “the nature of everything,” to mean the universe or the natural world. In this sense Ovid…
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From Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms
‘The whole of modern European philosophy since its inception (through Descartes) has this common deficiency - that nature does not exist for it and that it lacks a living basis’ Schelling, 1936: 30 In the earliest mythological texts of Western thought, ‘nature’ is visualized as a matrix, a…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
Three, more or less distinct, general meanings of this term can be identified: Those traits or characteristics of an organism that are assumed to be innate or inherited. This meaning is reflected in what is often called the nature-nurture or HEREDITY-ENVIRONMENT CONTROVERSY . The complex of events, …
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From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 2
1836 Work Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Originally published anonymously, Ralph Waldo Emerson's first book, Nature , laid the foundation for Transcendentalism by identifying nature as a source of the spirit as he urged his readers to establish an “original relation to the universe.” Emerson proposed…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article is a revision of the previous edition article by K. R. Olwig, volume 7, pp 275–285, © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Glossary Epistemology Body of thought concerned with the development of knowledge, including the means and measures for judging what count…
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From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American environmentalist and nature writer I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly, if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. THE BIBLE , Genesis, 8:22. Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. BROWNE, Sir Thomas Religio Medici…
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