Nature Boy

Nature Boy is a nickname for someone perceived as unusually attuned to the natural world, often with connotations of wildness or unconventional behavior.

The term gained currency from the 1948 song popularized by Nat King Cole, about a strange enchanted boy who wandered far and learned that love is the answer.

Professional wrestlers Buddy Rogers and Ric Flair both adopted the persona.

Someone called a nature boy might be admiringly earthy or mockingly uncivilized: He's a real nature boy—sleeps outside half the year.