Why does 'nature' encourage living organisms to breed?

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Why does 'nature' encourage living organisms to breed? (Why would nature care if we breed or not? Sex is obviously pleasurable in order to encourage living organisms to breed, that isn't difficult to figure out, but I wonder why it (nature itself) would want organisms to breed.)

Species wouldn't last long if they didn't breed. Don't overthink is, OK?

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Not really a meaningful question. "Nature" linked to "encourage" and "want" - it does neither.

There are some fundamental ways physics works that, as a side effect, have resulted in sufficient complexity to exhibit what we call "life". One mechanism that gets used on this planet is "breeding".

its a feature of darwinian theory.
we are because we breed.

or think of it this way.
if we didnt breed we wouldnt exist.

Don't assume nature has a "purpose" or an "intention". Thinks just happen because the conditions let them happen. As soon as a self-replicating molecule appeared on the primitive seas, its composition led it to naturally self-replicate. The process isn't perfect, though. Those variations who do it well thrive and keep on, and those who do it the wrong way disappear. Fast forward a couple hundred million years, and the rules are the same. Organisms who develop skills and behaviors that led to more breeding will obviously make those traits more popular among the community, and organisms whose actions lead to less breeding will tend to disappear. So, evolution is not an intentional process, but a residual one. What we have now is what little remains of an unimaginable succession of failures. This is not what was "supposed" or "meant" to be, but what merely happened to succeed.

Nature doesn't "encourage" you to breed. Nature has no will, no intelligence, no intentions. Nature simply follows what works best. If you happen to have an urge to breed, you'll naturally breed more, and in the next generation more individuals will have the same urge. It's just a successful change that happens to work. It's not what nature "wants", because nature does not want anything. It's just what gave better results.

"Nature" is only the human personification of the environment. Whats ever more ridiculous is people divide nature from the environment in towns, in buildings. There is not threshold there.