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What does it mean?
All natural things share the same underlying force or material.
In plain terms
Everything in nature is made of the same stuff.
What can you take from it?
Nature is fundamentally unified.

Where it applies

  • nature study
  • philosophy
  • environmental ethics

Putting it to work

  • respect nature
  • see unity

Questions to consider

  • How do you see nature?

Another view

Scientific distinctions show real differences.

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