As man develops from a simple animal to a self aware being we will learn our place as a protector and purveyor. I guess I mean an interdependent system of organisms, but somehow it doesn't quite seem that cut and dried or quite that scientific. There's also an image of a romanticized garden of Eden idea, a kind of place to escape from all that is not natural, or civilization. It's a beautiful place, this 'nature', but it is a place to be appreciated, because such beautiful things are few and far between. The process of living things dying and being born.
Nature is also the sky and the wind, the rivers and the bedrock below it.
The fish that swim within that environment and the birds that come down to eat them. The whole system that is entangled in a complex network of animals and working. Nature is beauty. And all that is a part of nature is beautiful. Lands, plants, animals, skies, and oceans are all a part of nature that is shared with us.