People felt that human beings would never be able to really attain the rigorous standards of such a teacher as nature and had to get rid of gaudy representations. The return to nature was thus rather seen as a returning to one's own heart, a quiet listening to the dialog of nature with the self.
人們認為，人永遠達不到自然老師的境界，只有褪去華麗的表相，回到自然，也就是回到自己心中，靜下來聽自然與自己內在的對話。