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Nature can refer to the general realm of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects—the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth.

Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife.

With the Industrial revolution, nature increasingly became seen as the part of reality deprived from intentional intervention: it was hence considered as sacred by some traditions (Rousseau, American transcendentalism) or a mere decorum for divine providence or human history

During the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws.