The phrase "a patch of nature" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small area that is natural or has natural elements, often in contrast to urban or developed areas.
Example: "In the middle of the city, we found a lovely patch of nature where we could relax and enjoy the fresh air."
Alternatives: "a slice of nature" or "a piece of nature".
Where can you find a patch of nature to observe?
In "Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature," James Gorman writes about visiting a forest in Tennessee with David Haskell, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist.
At the start of autumn, we present a Poetry Pairing featuring "September Midnight," a poem by Sara Teasdale that was published in 1914, and an article from 2012, "Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature".
Before you do the task, you might… Extension Activities: Narrative Writing: Science Times: "Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature" Common Core Standards: W3, W10, RI4, RI10, RH4 Have you ever sat and really observed the world around you? Do you notice the line of ants at the base of the tree in your yard?
Greens, he thinks, can find a beloved patch of nature that local politicians aren't protecting, and get reforms passed, either through local political assemblies, or via ballot measure systems like California's to protect it.
We were a big green patch of nature's glory from Paraiba; we were a few dozen troops among thousands.
Still, I will keep hope that another alights in my small patch of nature after the thaw.
Buczacki's account of that small patch of nature outside the back door takes us from the earliest recorded British garden (the Romano-British palace of Fishbourne in Sussex) through the 16th-century voyages of discovery that brought back such alien plants as black hellebore and marigolds, to naturalists whose gardens played a key role in their thinking (Gilbert White, Darwin).
Not in a pastoral sense; for me, nature isn't a patch of untouched wildness.
You haven't lived until you're stuck on a lonesome stretch of asphalt driving to a gig through a Rocky Mountain blizzard a Yeti wouldn't wander in desperate need of a "Number 2". Thankfully, I didn't have to walk very far from the car to find a patch of boreal forest where I could answer nature's call -- if a chilly one.
A patch of sea near the Crozet Islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean is home to nature's own iron-fertilization experiment.
