Nature

Nature

1. The sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.
   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines Written in Early Spring

     To her fair works did Nature link

     The human soul that through me ran;

     And much it grieved my heart to think

     What man has made of man.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

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