Is nature magic a separate force from divine magic in your setting? If so or if not, why?

Is nature magic a separate force from divine magic in your setting? If so or if not, why?

I know it's kind of a meme nowadays, but I say that priest classes like druids and clerics can draw from gods, forces, or philosophies. I run AD&D 2e and the priests' handbook has a section devoted to the difference between the three.

Now to answer your question, I treat divine magic as magic from the gods, whereas Nature acts as a force, which druids and rangers draw from.

Technically, although the reasons for it are due to the main dividing lines between the two major types of magic in the world.

The type of magic a priest would use is soul magic, utilizing energy channeled through the prayers of the faithful and granted by their patron god.

The type of magic a shaman would use is body magic, which is powered by the mystical ashes of a primordial goddess that are spread throughout every living thing. Through fine manipulation of these, one could cause plants to grow at increased rates, turn oneself into a different form, or communicate directly with the mind of an animal or beast and tame it, or cause various other effects one would expect from a user of nature magic.

Nature magic amplifies natural phenomenon. Divine magic subverts reality and probability (miracles).

Yes actually.
I could bullshit to you all day about why in the setting the distinction makes sense, but the reason is "Because it's a different fucking theme"

Ever since St. Patrick drove the "snakes" out of Ireland, devout practicing clergy men induged in scripture of a lord beyond all physical law vs. hidden archetypal amplifications of natural phenomena invoked via ritual appeasement of the phenomena, were so diametrically opposed In Real Life, that the latter can't even be classified as legitimate religion anymore by most religion's standards.

Divine vs Primal/Natural distinction is essentially an Abrahamic vs Pagan distinction, but it's one that suffuses our culture to the point that you might as well make use of it, you know?

Also, it boils down to the fact that --thanks to that cultural distinction-- Druids and Rangers are going to want to talk to animals and trees more than a sky-daddy, even if there is a sky-daddy of animals and trees. And having a kind of pseduo-religous magic that isn't under the sway of a sentient and potentially fickle being that is beyond most mortal understanding...

Can you imagine how shitty and annoying it would be that if everytime a Druid wanted to Call Lightning they had to be on Zeus's good side, with the intensity that a Paladin swears fealty to divinity?

In my homebrew, nature is a force to be invoked, just like a god, process (such as a waterfall, other spells being cast, or a decaying demon lord carcass), or emotion.

It is closer to a process, all that buzzing, running, climbing, hopping, eating, killing, and fucking add up to some serious energy release that druids and such can tap into. Even the slow growth of trees and other plants gives off energy that druids can use, or store in standing stones and "Druid's Halos."

Ish. The people in the setting treat them as differently as night and day, but the two are all but the same mechanically and for a good in-game reason. Both are way different from sorcery.

I should add that most of the gods of my world are captive, sleeping or otherwise unreachable in terms of real communication. You invoke their power, not their desires, but that power flows best to those that share their interests.
The gods that do interact are mostly dicks. There's a Sleeping God of death, but an active lesser god named Narghast who pursues a real agenda. Thus the distinction between Nature and Divine. Nature is largely unaware that it is providing power.

Nature is governed by spirits that are native to the setting's continent, whereas divine beings are not originally from the continent but migrated to the continent after natural phenomena was established. Since deities don't have any need for food or space they have very little interaction with nature, but shamans do worship both the spirits and gods as two separate but useful sources of power. Normal clerics have no access to nature magic because their gods never learned how nature works, but clerics are expected to give spirits the same respect they would the gods, since the two groups are equal in status. Nature magic manipulates existing life, divine magic manipulates reality defining rules.

My setting have Gaia as the nature goddess, Adam as the divine god (with saints filling the default role of other settings gods) , and Lucy as the arcane "god".