nature

la nature (FR N-F) the ensemble of qualities, properties that define a being or thing; innate qualities of a species; what is innate, spontaneous, as opposed to acquired; the often-personified principle underlying all life; principle underlying all moral judgment, the totality of ideal laws, of which human laws are but a pale imitation; produced without the intervention of man; nature, the physical world; the model that (some) art strives to reproduce. First appears in French in 1119, from…