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Natural resource   /nˈætʃərəl rˈisɔrs/   Listen
Natural resource

noun
1.
Resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature.  Synonym: natural resources.






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"Natural resource" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was explained to them that the asteroids were, after all, natural resources, and that they had no moral right to make a large profit and deprive others of their fair share of the income from a natural resource, but they insisted that they had earned it and had a ...
— Anchorite • Randall Garrett

... call of the west and the north, with their appealing tale of untried potentialities. Canada has also, across its merely figurative and political southern border, a vast and teeming world, reaching down to the equator, and comprising almost every possible diversity of human effort and natural resource. Australia, the purely British island continent, is more isolated. But, broadly speaking, the very facts which make the enterprising Old World youth fix his gaze upon the New World cause the same type of youth in Australia, for example, ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... it appears, that during the severe part of the winter season for weeks together the bees are quite benumbed and torpid from the cold, and do not consume any of their provision. This state of sleep, like that of swallows and bats, seems to be the natural resource of those creatures in cold climates, and the making of honey ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... Natural resources: wide natural resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, timber note: formidable obstacles of climate, terrain, and distance hinder ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



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