Literary notes about natural (AI summary)
The word “natural” in literature is employed in a variety of ways to evoke inherent qualities, processes, and authentic states. Authors use it to denote what is innate or inherent—whether it be the instinctive passion of a character’s emotions ([1], [2]) or the unadulterated course of life and physical phenomena ([3], [4]). In some works, “natural” contrasts with the contrived or artificial, emphasizing originality or the organic unfolding of events ([5], [6]), while in others it underscores a scientific or evolutionary process, as when discussing selection and progression in nature ([7], [8], [9]). It is also deployed to capture the immediacy and genuineness of human behavior and environment, from the unforced charm of a landscape ([10], [11]) to the spontaneous impulses that define social and personal interactions ([12], [13]).
- Although he squared himself again directly, he expressed a great amount of natural emotion by these simple means.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - The natural emotions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - The closer we keep to elementary human needs and to the natural agencies that may satisfy them, the closer we are to beauty.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Overwork and consequent exhaustion began to have their natural effect.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - Several authors have drawn a wide distinction between artificial and natural races.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - All that 1 Nature has prescribed must be good; and as Death is natural to us, it is Absurdity to fear it.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - An exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - So that here we have an excellent illustration of natural selection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - They all fall into one grand natural system; and this fact is at once explained on the principle of descent.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - 'A natural landscape,' says, an ancient author in four words; and why?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao - In natural beauty, and in many physical advantages, this mountain land is one of the most lovely and delightful regions of Europe.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole - We merely take advantage of natural impulses to produce a better product.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - Without being intelligent, Odette had the charm of being natural.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
