Cultural historian William Irwin Thompson wants to redefine the terms.
Nature is the horizon of culture.
In other words, nature is everything, including humans. We are usually taught ecology as if we human beings, except for our penchant for making a mess of the world, are uninvolved spectators of the dance of nature. An alternative view is that humanity is an inseparable component of the natural world. In Native American culture, human steps are welcomed in nature's dance. Nature, in English, seems to refer to that which is separate from human beings.