对现代思想如此恐怖的自然是什么？为什么这么无法忍受？因为自然根本上是冷漠的。这是无情的，不感兴趣的。如果您生活或死亡，成功或失败，感到愉悦或痛苦，那就不在乎。这对我们来说是无法忍受的。我们如何生活在一个对我们无动于衷的世界中。因此，我们重新定义了性质。我们称其为大自然，当它不是父母的任何术语中。
(What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It's unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or fail, feel pleasure or pain, it doesn't care. That's intolerable to us. How can we live in a world so indifferent to us. So we redefine nature. We call it Mother Nature when it's not a parent in any real sense of the term.)