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We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.

— George M. Church

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The unnatural, that too is natural.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

— Ben Okri

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

— Amelia Barr

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

— Greg Graffin

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

— Alice Walker

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

— John Burroughs

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

— Charles Churchill

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

— Christian Louboutin

There's nothing unnatural in creation.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld