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natural order

Noun

Meaning

the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws

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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. Samuel Beckett

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. Imre Kertész

I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, By pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. Theodore Roethke

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis

Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. Gunnar Myrdal

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