The German Broadcasting Archives (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, DRA Berlin) has a huge collection of reproducible sounds (natural, artificial, hybrid), often used in radio and TV productions.
There is also the Freesound database (http://www.freesound.org) which contains all kinds of sounds, including real-world environmental sounds, both at high and low recording qualities. The sounds are usually labeled with tags, which might help in collecting a good subset to work with.