Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.