Natural World
Other words that express the natural world or agriculture often appear in place names:
- ki or -gi (木) for a tree; e.g., Tochigi Prefecture
- matsu (松) for a pine tree; e.g. Takamatsu
- mori (森) for a forest; e.g., Aomori Prefecture
- sugi (杉) for a sugi tree; e.g., Suginami
- ta or -da (田) for a rice paddy; e.g. Ōda
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Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or world:
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)