Heidegger's view of nature is inextricably bound up with his view of how we relate to the world. In his later work, Heidegger attempted to retrieve a more primordial sense of nature in several different dimensions or aspects. These dimensions of nature, inseparable from our interaction with it, are identified from his writings: Nature as underlying essence; Nature as self-emerging life; Nature as physical matter on the earth; and Nature as cosmological home. The relationship between each of these conceptions of nature and our being-in-the-world with nature, which in the later writings is termed dwelling, is explained with reference to the everyday practice of walking.