Nature (n.) is blind, nature is necessity. Against blind nature is conscious man, who, in his growing consciousness, is now able to plan and direct his future. History is a new demiurge to wrest plenty from a recalcitrant nature.
Nature (n.) is, for Marx, to be subjugated in order to obey history while for nietzsche, nature is to be obeyed in order to subjugate history.
Nature (n.) is man's inorganic body -that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -i.e., nature is his body -and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.
Nature (n.) is merely an unavoidable prerequisite for the extraction of surplus labor from free labor power and the objectification of this surplus labor in vendible use value.
Nature (n.) is the object of human activities, even though humanity is also part of nature.
Nature (n.) is the province of the exercise of man's creative powers so alienation 'from nature' means alienation from these creative powers as applied to nature, not separation from the pristine purity of a primordial state of nature.
Nature (n.) is valueless, unless worked upon by humans.
Nature (n.) is the non-human, inorganic body with which man must maintain a constant interchange so as not to die.