According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.