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What are some philosophers that base their philosophy on nature?
What I mean is something like Lao Tzu, he came to a lot of philosophical conclusions by just observing water.
Also, what do you think of that? Does this sort of philosophy hold more merit than philosophy that doesn't relate to nature?

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>>18330625
Pantheist thinkers might be what you're looking for. Spinoza, maybe?

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you mean nature as animals, flowers and stuff, or nature as ontology?

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>>18330625
Emerson and Thoreau. Tolstoy to an extent.

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>What are some philosophers that base their philosophy on nature?
>What I mean is something like Lao Tzu, he came to a lot of philosophical conclusions by just observing water.

1. You mean: "bios", not: "nature".

2. The Presocratics.

>Does this sort of philosophy hold more merit than philosophy that doesn't relate to nature?
All genuine philosophy regards nature, and the world, since philosophy is a human science; the best philosophers discern the reality of bios within nature as they realize theos within Sofia, and within themselves.

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>>18330625
Spinoza and Goethe. Especially Goethe.