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Locke doesn't come right out and answer whether human nature is good or bad, but he does tend to lean more towards good. Locke explains how God gave us the land when he says "He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it); not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious." He also says that it is better for humans to do something with the land rather than it left alone and untouched when he says "The difference is between and acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar,... and an acre of the same land lying in common without any husbandry upon it, and he will find that the improvement of labour makes the far greater part of the value." Locke means that when there is labor added to the land it makes the land more valuable rather than when it just is sitting being unused. Locke also states that "Nature, having furnished as liberally as any other people with the materials of plenty" which shows that he believe that there are mass amounts of resources for humans to use. Locke also seems to think that land has potential to be valuable but by itself it has little value. It is shown when he says "The ground which produces the materials is scarce to be reckoned in as any, or at most, but a very small part of it; so little, that even amongst us, land that is left wholly to nature, that hath no improvement of pasturage, tillage, or planting, is called, as indeed it is, waste." Locke is trying to say that humans should use the land for their needs and when we do that the land is of greater value, rather than when it is just left alone and bare.