Watts believes our perception of nature as peaceful is ignorant; in reality, it is full of suffering, which explains why humans may find a way to detach themselves from it.

All this universe. Is like water. It is fluid; It is transient; It is changing. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The way to become one with the universe is to... Trust it. That is to say to be able to...
Drift like a cloud and flow like water. Seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion and there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. What you do is what the whole universe is doing. At the place you call hеre and now

Philosophy of Alan Watts