Nature

*NATURE - see EVOLUTION

People tend by their nature toward goodness, and it is only the adverse circumstances of their nurture that erode goodness and engender evil. Our individual task is to discover and express our innate goodness, while our collective task is to establish the just social order that makes that discovery and that expression possible for all. Just as you may even force water up the hills, this is not the nature of water, but due to the force of circumstances. (Wisdom, Confucianism, p134-6)

The human nature longs to possess/covet (and greedy). Blessed are the poor in spirit for they depend only upon God. (Tozer)

What is the relation of Nature and nature? That nature is sensory and Nature is Spirit, because all-embracing Spirit does indeed transcend and include both culture and nature. Rather than moving back to nature, we must move forward in evolution to the emergence of a Nature or Spirit (or World Soul) that would indeed unify the differentiated mind and nature. No, nature is not the source of this Beauty; nature is its destination. The source is transcendental Spirit, of which nature is a radiant expression. How can you transcend nature for moral freedom and yet become one with nature for wholeness - integrate Fichte and Spinoza - Schelling? (Everything, p287-291)