

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.
CBC Television
1. Why Is It So?
2. The Roar of the Crowd
Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, with Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. Herbert Jasper
3. The Future of Science
Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists
4. Schizophrenia
5. Engineering
6. Man as an Environment
7. Science Fiction
8. A special Christmas edition
9. The Aurora-Borealis
10. Man as an Environment – Human Body
11. Kept Alive
12. Physics and Games – Laws of Probability
13. The Face of the Moon
14. Hibernation
15. Man and His Environment
16. Eclipse
17. Animal Communication
18. The Speed of Light
19. Monotony
Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind
20. The Chemical Senses
21. The Mohole: Earth's Crust
22. Laws of Conservation
23. Photosynthesis
24. Physics of Clouds
25. The Sources of Science