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The original operating system — no updates, no off switch, zero patience for your opinion.
means The physical world and everything in it — plus the built-in character of a person or thing, the stuff they do without being told.
from From Latin 'natura,' meaning 'birth, constitution, character,' itself from 'nasci' — 'to be born.' So nature, at its root, is simply what you're born with: the qualities baked in before anyone had a say.
- word root
- shares root with 'nation' and 'native'
- philosophy split
- nature vs nurture debate is 400+ years old
- scale fact
- humans are outnumbered by trees 400 to 1
- legal twist
- some rivers now have legal personhood rights