The novel, Conrad’s magnum opus, not only exhibits the derogatory and disdainful attitude that Conrad’s colonial characters harbor towards Nature; but also elicits the anti-Nature principles of Western philosophy. Based on these precepts, this article endeavours to explore, with reference to the anti-Nature principles of the Western philosophical tradition, how the image of Nature is constructed in a negative way by the Western colonial explorers in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. From the very beginning of the journey into the African land in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, his colonial man conceives of the venture as a movement into the realms of the “other.”