Nature (n.) is a morally neutral realm of necessity. It is good insofar as it is beneficial for humans to live in harmony with this necessity and harmful, as well as pointless, to oppose it.
Nature (n.) is a realm of original authenticity, of prehuman simplicity, which he holds to be morally preferable, however unrecoverable, to the artifices and deceptions, the injustices and dishonesty of the self that is created in, by and through society.
Nature (n.) is at the same time a historical phenomenon and a transcendental reality and used in one or the other sense depending on the point of the argument.
Nature (n.) is both a psychic and a poetic form. It is a source of oneness and innocence and truth.
Nature (n.) is both self-sufficient and lacking (like when a mother cannot produce enough milk to breastfeed her baby). Its self-sufficiency can only be maintained if the lack is supplemented by such things as creativity, imagination, creation, and invention, giving us the space of more the impossible.
Nature (n.) is both the model and the source of an unspoiled simplicity and spontaneity which will break the bonds of distorting convention and artificiality.
Nature (n.) is constituted by love, and the basic story of the development of humanity through culture, man's self-becoming, is the story of the appropriate or inappropriate cultural apprehension of natural love in cultural and political form.
Nature (n.) is good... society is the source of all wrongness in the world. It is the material reality which precedes and continues to support conscious life.
Nature (n.) is not milton's paradise lost but the only experience from which it is possible to deduce God or the divine.
Nature (n.) is not silent in our natural condition... in the state of nature, we act from the simple impulse of nature.
Nature (n.) is not some stable form of essence, but rather human beings have changed their nature such that it begins to adapt to social conditions and reason develops.
Nature (n.) is putty. It sets no limits on what people may do or achieve.
Nature (n.) is self-sufficient and therefore good and it is man's arts which necessarily introduce corruption (and also that which can limit this corruption).
Nature (n.) draws a response from the solitary individual of sublime appreciation.
Nature (n.) is the best teacher of the child and he can acquire perfect knowledge when he learns coming in close contact with the nature.
Nature (n.) is the ground from which human existence springs and to which it should remain closely tied.
Nature (n.) is the paradise of the individual, equated with society is a hell to be avoided.
Nature (n.) is to be held in contrast to man and is to be understood as a greater intelligence working towards a balanced plan.