NATURE - the whole world in the variety of its forms, everything perceived by the five senses of a person, any manifestations of matter, the universe, the Universe; nature is a cumulative object of natural science that sets the basic scheme for understanding and explaining specific subjects of study (space and time, energy, movement, etc.).

The concept of "nature" as one of the central concepts of European philosophical thought and culture is used to refer not only to natural, but also to the material conditions of its existence created by man - "second nature". The attitude to "nature" as an object of scientific knowledge and practical development necessarily compares it with "society" as the embodiment of a thinking human mind endowed with consciousness. The division of the world into "object" and "subject", "matter" and "consciousness", "feeling" and "mind" is relative. Nature imprints its laws on us, and our mind imprints its laws on nature. "Society" is defined as a part of the material world isolated from nature, representing a historically developing form of human life. The dictionary of semantic topology uses this definition.