the natural world
noun
: all of the animals, plants, and other things existing in nature and not made or caused by people
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The nineteenth-century instances of close observation of the natural world on view at the Huntington here gave way to a thoroughly twenty-first-century pluralism.
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Red Cameron, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Russia is cast as the anti-environmental destroyer, hell-bent on rapacious domination both of Ukraine and of the natural world.
—David Vetter, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Many of my favorite assignments of 2024 have had these quiet, magical moments, among people totally focused in wonder on the natural world.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Tan’s journey to the natural world in search of peace.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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Red Cameron, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Russia is cast as the anti-environmental destroyer, hell-bent on rapacious domination both of Ukraine and of the natural world.
—David Vetter, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Many of my favorite assignments of 2024 have had these quiet, magical moments, among people totally focused in wonder on the natural world.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Tan’s journey to the natural world in search of peace.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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“The natural world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20natural%20world. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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