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Most Read This Week In Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "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 (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The con
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Nature"

Wild Dark Shore
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Go as a River
North Woods
Eruption
Black Woods Blue Sky
Playground
The Island of Missing Trees
The Mighty Red
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Once There Were Wolves
The Wood at Midwinter
Heartwood
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Migrations
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot, #3)
Open Throat
The Hike
The Mountain in the Sea
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Miss Benson's Beetle
Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett, #24)
Whale Fall
Beartooth
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Bewilderment
Birnam Wood
The Light Pirate
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Into the Uncut Grass
Death Valley
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
Whalefall
The Cat Who Taught Zen
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Odder
Bear
How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)
Stacken
Burn
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The Eyes & the Impossible
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Ash's Cabin
Nowhere for Very Long
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Small Game
Dusk
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
The Guide
The Music of Bees
The Couples Trip
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The Naturalist Society
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
The Twilight Garden
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
The Seed Keeper
The Nature of Disappearing
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
The Wild Silence
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Waters
Two Degrees
The Final Hunt (The Final Hunt, #1)
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Elolliset
The Bear
The Canyon's Edge
Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality
White Holes
Fish Out of Water
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
Floreana
Wildflower Emily: A Story About Young Emily Dickinson
Pearly Everlasting
Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Landlines
Don't Touch that Flower
The Last Caretaker
Crow Talk
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Mirror Lake (Shady Hollow, #3)
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)
Skogen Dynasty (Crumbling Hearts #1)

George Carlin
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. ...more
George Carlin

Lewis Carroll
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ...more
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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