"Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps."
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"I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be."
"To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is."
"There is no wish more natural than the wish to know."
"It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature."
"Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act."
"It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own."
"I feel like I’m good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I’ve always felt like that’s been natural for me."
"Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will."
"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person."
"Remember that your natural state is joy."
"The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed."
"As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
"There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear."
"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen."
"He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration."
"artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity"
"It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead."
"Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."