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• Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

  Thomas Traherne

  Inspirational, Nature, Natural

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Practice, Singing

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fatherhood, Natural, Shakes

  "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.

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• I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Causes, Razors

  1687 Newton's First Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy. Philosophiae Naturalis PrincipiaMathematica (translated by Andrew Motte,1729).

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• It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

  Hugh Leonard

  Book, People, Waiting

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

  John Grisham

  Fighting, Who I Am, Years

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• I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Dream, Nature

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• an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Men, Weakness

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• It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

  Cate Blanchett

  Travel, Moving, Important

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• Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

  Beverley Nichols

  Life, Wise, Country

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• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Silence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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• To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Natural, Circumstances

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

  Rick Yancey

  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Jesus, Healing, Miracle

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• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

  Dan Wells

  Impossible Things, World, Natural

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Thinking, Impossible Things, World

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.354, Random House

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• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  Gertrude Stein (1969). “Narration: four lectures”

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• The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

  Truman Capote

  Average, Years, Personality

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.58, Vintage

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