Full Idea
The soft and cowardly concept 'nature' introduced by enthusiasts …is an attempt to read from nature that moral-Christian Rouseauian 'humanity', as if Nature were freedom, goodness, innocence, equity, justice, idyll, at base a cult of Christian morality.
Gist of Idea
Enthusiasts' Nature is Christian ideals, of freedom, goodness, innocence, equity, justice
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Fragments from 1886-87 (v 17) [1887], 10[170])
A Reaction
Pastoral poetry has a much longer history. 'King Lear' is the great debate about the values in nature. I guess 'the pcturesque' is Nietzsche's target here.
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1886-87 (v 17)', ed/tr. Leiner, George H. [Stanford 2025], p.323