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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world, ‘Nature’ refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natural, or essential qualities, innate disposition’, and in ancient times, literally meant 'birth’. Natural was a Latin translation of the Greek word. ‘physic’, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.'The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion. This usage was confirmed during.the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries. Within the various uses of the word today, ‘nature' may refer to the general realm of various types 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, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. It is often taken to mean the ‘natural environment’ or wilderness — wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention.

Family

My family is not very big, just a typical family: Dad, Mom, me, my brother and sister and our cat. My Mummy is forty-one, she is a teacher of Spanish at the University. She is a born teacher. She has teaching abilities. My Dad is forty-two, he is a professional painter, he works for a design company. My parents both like their work very much.

My elder sister Natasha is nineteen, she goes to the University, she wants to be a teacher of history. She is fond of reading books on history and fiction.

My younger brother Igor is only six years old, he goes to the kindergarten. He is very funny, I like to spend my free time teaching him something. Igor likes to play with our cat.

My grandparents are retired. They like gardening. They spend a lot of their time in the garden. They grow vegetables and fruits.

We enjoy having fresh vegetables and green on our dinner table.

I love my family very much. We always help each other. Everyone in my family is my best friend.