natural world
Wildlife and wilderness
The natural world is the physical universe and its phenomena, especially living things and ecosystems as distinct from human-made environments.
The term often carries a sense of what exists independently of human activity: We need to protect the natural world from industrial development.
It encompasses animals, plants, landscapes, weather, and the forces that govern them.
- biomesMajor ecological community types
- rain forestWet, dense tropical woodland
- animalsMulticellular mobile organisms
- plantsPhotosynthesizing rooted organisms
- amphibiansVertebrates with aquatic larvae
food chains · algae · food web · wetlands · coral reef · conservation · national park · bacteria · ecosystems · biodiversity · living things · wild animals · fungi · beaches · wildlife · niches · oceans · symbiosis
- nature writingWalden, wilderness, wilderness exploration, pastoral, field guide
- naturesun, moon, sky, trees, water
- natural historyflora, fauna, species, fossil, fossils
- real worldphysical reality, daily life, lived experience, real life, physical space
- naturalismliterary realism, realism, determinism, empiricism, materialism
- Swedenborgianismcorrespondences, glorification, memorabilia, New Jerusalem, spiritual marriage
natural worldbuilt environment
Human-created physical surroundings
spiritual world · artifice · virtual world · cyberspace · virtual reality
natural worldcivilization
Advanced organized human society
human society · cityscape · industrial landscape · urban environment · suburban sprawl
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