The world according to Torah is dualistic. There are two different things. The Creator and the created. They are not the same thing.
"But nature isn't God himself. He's not identified [with it]. He's wholly other. He isn't kin to humans in any way either. So there is no blurring, no soft boundary between humans and the divine."
However you can see the same ideas in the אמונות ודעות of Saadia Gaon and Maimonides in his Guide for the Perplexed.
The son of Maimonides also goes into this in his book of Musar. מספיק לעובד השם Enough for a servant of God.
Why in fact Rav Saada Gaon and the Rambam are ignored in matters of the view-point of Torah seems odd to me. You would imagine that they have some understanding of what Torah is all about, wouldn't you? I, for one, certainly assume it as a simple thing
