Locke - Human Nature, Resources, and Environment

Locke never declares his view point on human nature in this section of reading. However, Locke would believe that human nature is generally good. Locke supports his belief because he thinks all men want a stable government and law that are run by consent and men will (for the most part) take only what they need. Locke would not say that every human has a good nature because there are still those who are greedy or those who do not want laws impeding their actions.
Locke finds there to be an abundance of resources. Since God left humans to rule over the earth, naturally God would leave everything for the use of humans. Man can hunt and eat every animal, work and seed a majority of the land, and with this labor, man can generate a seemingly unlimited amount of resources. With all of these resources, Locke sees a problem, how do you declare property? Locke believes that man originally went by, you labor over land, that land is yours, you hunt a rabbit, the rabbit is yours. As long as you are putting forth effort, the result is your property. Eventually this form of ownership disappeared and turned into more of the consenting government deciding ownership and having documents and things of that nature.
The world and environment, according to Locke can be both valuable and a wasteland. If you take only what you need, then you make your environment valuable because you are using everything in your possession. However, if you take too much and let your resources (such as food) go bad then you are generating waste and therefore make your environment a wasteland. Even if you try to sell your products, the labor you put into creating them is not worth any amount of money in return and you are just wasting your effort and product.