[Grammar] nature there or the nature there

[englishhobby]

One of my students wrote in his essay: I would like to have a big house in the countryside in Europe. I think the nature there is amazing.
I know that 'nature' is an abstract noun and an abstract concept which doesn't take an article. But how about this particular case? Don't we need to use a definite article ('the nature there')?

 

[jutfrank]

I know that 'nature' is an abstract noun and an abstract concept which doesn't take an article.

That's not quite right. That nature is an abstract noun and concept doesn't mean it can't take an article. Abstract things can also be specifically referred to.

Don't we need to use a definite article ('the nature there')?

This is confusing. Did the student use the or not?

Anyway, the article is right in this case. The student is thinking of the particular natural features of that area.

 

[englishhobby]

Did the student use the or not?

She did.