Is Nature a Thing Out There?

The word nature is just a way for us to address the collective of things, he says. When I ask you what creates the water cycle, you're gonna point to another God,. You're gonna say, oh, there's evaporation, there's gravity, et cetera. What you observed was a pattern; that pattern, you inferred a force. That's why we mistakenly take the word nature as something being a force.