nature.

Objections like this, in fact, are based on a systematic ambiguity in the way we use the term nature.

The Future of Human Nature~ A Symposium on the Promises and Challenges of the Revolutions in Genomics and Computer Science (Conference)~ Session Six 2003

There is endless inspiration in what we call nature.

Art or Nature? James Gurney 2008

In so doing, science identifies phenomena that end up playing well-confirmed roles in such explanations, and these end up *constituting* what we call nature.

Should Science Pursue Methodological Supernaturalism? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

It cannot be that I was not given flowers or leaves to play with, that I did not see the grass, was not shaded from the sun; still, up to five or six years, I have no recollection of what we call nature.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

This molecular force is the tangible activities of the world and the universe which we call nature.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

For the rhythm of line as well as of sound the artist must seek in his own soul; he will never find it in the inchoate and discordant jumble which we call nature.

Modern Painting 1892

Consequently, investments are of a long-term nature.

India's Airlines: Is the Future Low Cost? 2009

UBS Wealth Management Americas, the U.S. brokerage business of UBS, said Monday that it had suspended purchases of leveraged ETFs, citing their short-term nature.

Warning Signs Up For Leveraged ETFs 2009

But that is not to say that it is not affected by calculations of a short-term nature.

The Egoistic Friend 2006

In the Bible, God comes BEFORE nature, and God is the powerful, transcendant, purposeful Creator of all that we call nature.

Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer - The Panda's Thumb 2006