call of nature vs nature

call of nature

noun
  • The bodily urge to urinate or defecate. 

nature

noun
  • The need to urinate and defecate. 

  • Spontaneous love, affection, or reverence, especially between parent and child. 

  • The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort. 

  • The distinguishing characteristic of a person or thing, understood as its general class, sort, type, etc. 

  • Sexual desire. 

  • The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology. 

  • The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment. 

How often have the words call of nature and nature occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )