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What's with the capital 'N'?

"I love not man the less, but Nature more"
Every time I see this quote, there's a capital 'N' for nature, why?

If it's any use, here is the full poem:
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Presumably it's referring to nature as a being, thus it's a name.
Original post by EarthsDaughter
"I love not man the less, but Nature more"
Every time I see this quote, there's a capital 'N' for nature, why?


Personification - A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.

In the poem you can see Universe has also been personified.

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