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:
“The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)