Nature

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura is a Latin translation of the Greek word, 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... — en.wikipedia.org