In "Tintern Abbey," what was Wordsworth’s attitude toward Nature when he first visited the Wye?

It is interesting that the speaker of the poem begins by
telling us that it has been five years since he was last looking at the spectacular view
of nature that he has returned to now. This becomes important, because as the poem
progresses, the now more sober and philosophical Wordsworth compares his enjoyment and
appreciation of the view with his more passionate and uncontained responses when he
first visited the spot. Note how he describes how he reacted five years
ago:

And so I
dare to hope,

Though changed, no doubt, from what I was
when first

I came among these hills; when like a
roe

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the
sides

Of teh deep rivers, and the lonely
streams,

Wherever nature led: more like a
man

Flying from something that he dreads, than
one

Who sought the thing he
loved.

Wordsworth described
himself as a passionate animal, revelling in the beauty of nature before him, comparing
himself to a deer. Nature, then, to Wordsworth was "all in all," an "appetite; a feeling
and a love." Wordsworth then goes on to say that this time has passed, but he is not sad
about this, because those "raptures" have been replaced by different but equally
beneficial responses to nature.