Environment
The environment is everything that encircles us. This is the literal yet rather profound meaning that derived from early 17th century Old French en and viron (circle). When the word was introduced into the English language in 1827 by Thomas Carlisle, he elaborated the concept to mean ‘the aggregate of the conditions in which a person or thing lives’, similar to the German word ‘umgebung’. These etymological roots remind us that the environment was always about nested living systems, including not only people and all other organisms but also their complex and dynamic relationships: the incredible web of life.
— Wayne Visser
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