The phrase "a return to nature" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing themes related to environmentalism, simplicity, or a desire to reconnect with the natural world.
Example: "Many people are advocating for a return to nature as a way to combat the stress of modern life."
Alternatives: "a reconnection with nature" or "a revival of natural living".
In recent years, there is a serious trend toward a "return to nature," that is an approach to natural methods of treatment.
In their pursuit of "flower power" some sought a return to nature.
Many of the best authors of our time have advocated, in one way or another, a return to Nature, or a radical simplification of society.
Through the group gropes and the undistinguished dancing, some kind of narrative about decadence and a return to nature is discernible, but it's not particularly interesting.
In 1756 he published anonymously A Vindication of Natural Society…, a satirical imitation of the style of Viscount Bolingbroke that was aimed at both the destructive criticism of revealed religion and the contemporary vogue for a "return to Nature".
What powers the book is the tension it builds between the fantasy of a return to nature – something shared by many of us – and the psychological damage wrought by someone who decides to turn that fantasy into reality.
(I say "new" because in many cases the solution involves a return to nature-based, less industrial processes).
For some, the hurricane has meant a forced return to nature.
The film's overwhelming sense of a purifying return to nature helps compensate for its central characters -- two humble but luminous young people living in a remote Chinese village during the Cultural Revolution -- not being sharply etched.
But this peaceful scene of a gradual return to nature is under threat, and with it some of the last shreds of the original biodiversity of this unique peninsula.
The World Cup is always the season of the spurious analogy, and this World Cup in particular, the Copa das Copas, a footballing return to nature to tug at even the flintiest heart's strings, coaxes us towards heights of lyricism more powerfully than any other in recent memory.
