Nature

Often simply redundant, used like character.

Poor: Acts of a hostile nature.
Better: Hostile acts.

Often vaguely used in such expressions as “a lover of nature;” “poems about nature.” Unless more specific statements follow, the reader cannot tell whether the poems have to do with natural scenery, rural life, the sunset, the untracked wilderness, or the habits of squirrels.

From: William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918.