In the Phenomenology, Hegel is very radical. As a matter of fact, he says that Nature is Space, whereas Time is History. In other words: there is no natural, cosmic Time; there is Time only to the extent that there is History, that is, human existence – that is, speaking existence. Man who, in the course of History, reveals Being by his Discourse, is the "empirically existing Concept" (der daseiende Begriff), and Time is nothing other than this Concept. Without Man, Nature would be Space, and only Space. Only Man is in Time, and Time does not exist outside of Man; therefore, Man is Time, and Time is Man – that is, the "Concept which is there in the [spatial] empirical existence" of Nature (der Begriff der da ist).

Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (Cornell University Press, 1980) p. 133