But the forests are a different world, much closer to natural environments. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the aggregate level, children physically respond to music’s beat, and are able to move more accurately when the tempo of the music more clearly corresponds to the natural tempo of the child. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For one thing, more and more students were going off to be carers, and among our old Hailsham crowd, there was a growing feeling this was the natural course to follow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what more natural than they would one day talk over endless coffeepots into innumerable midnights, and out of all the talk and the bitter brewings would come—the House of Usher. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have believed in goodness because, like us, they were a Y.M.C.A. family, but what they stressed was being free and natural. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy’s apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thus does not think of the natural movement of the elements as movement through space; he sees it in teleological terms as the realization of potential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were magicians in the forest also in those legendary days, as well as strange animals not known to modern works of natural history. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a shy man, interested only in natural history, who had never fought with anybody in his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, Cora was not a natural believer, and her education had been terminated sooner than she wished. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Emma was the only one who managed to get a question in edgewise: “You think we just went through a natural gas explosion?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

That is the way Marx says all of the natural resources should be owned—not by one group of rich people but by all the workers of the world as a whole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tried doing that in my head and, to my happiness, found that the imagined conversation felt almost natural. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is extremely unlikely that any natural physical process could transmit radio messages containing prime numbers only. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most guys would look pretty awkward walking around with a scabbard strapped to their jeans, but on Jason it seemed perfectly natural. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists who come across these 110 skeletons may too easily conclude that most fell victim to some natural disaster. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would have required many of the social forces of the time to have been different—including the prevailing belief that slavery was natural and right. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was natural that farmers would need to know how to repair them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Adams was fully prepared to include Jefferson as a charter member of the natural aristocracy that made and then secured the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was the most natural thing possible to connect them with the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there is a large literature on the classification and natural history of spiders, it is scattered and fragmentary and deals not at all with their value as an agent of biological control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was also a natural laboratory for rapid virus evolution, and possibly it led to the creation of hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel’s elfin guest certainly seemed nervous about the dance of the flowers, supposed to represent the wonderful bond between goblins and the natural world. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But now, at the advanced age of sixty-six, was it not natural to expect some semblance of serenity? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Papa had told me right from the start that fear was a right and natural feeling for anybody, and nothing to be ashamed of. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Charles valued Gray’s friendship and needed his help in promoting natural selection, he did not rule out the possibility. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a silver lining, it was that the earthquake brought new funding and world attention to a country that had suffered in obscurity through too many natural, political, and health disasters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Of the remaining counts, a fraction come from natural radioactivity in the walls of the cave. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Darwin returned to England after five years at sea, he was already a minor celebrity among natural historians. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A gun advocate might argue that the high-school girl needs to have a gun to disrupt what has become the natural order: it’s the bad guys that have the guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he worked harder in the weight room than Boobie and didn’t coast on his natural strength. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a natural landmark where campers often rendezvoused on hunting expeditions, but now there was nobody around. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We do that handshake/hug-with-the-opposite-arm thing that I usually only do with my boys but feels totally natural with her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They believe that GMOs are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now, with light streaming through the window, she is busy, determined to gain control over what is natural. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She stopped trying to contain my natural friendliness, and over time the rest of the team relaxed a bit more as well. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To him, he couldn’t have landed any closer to his original dream, because now, as a power plant manager, he gets to create electricity out of thin air—literally—using natural gas. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Combining the fruits of many ecosystems, Andean cultures both enjoyed a better life than they could have wrested from any single place and spread out the risk from the area’s frequent natural catastrophes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the north, in fact, the areas with the poorest natural endowments and the greatest susceptibility to drought were the most populous and successful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, wow! What is it? I’ve heard of emotional magics. Is it one of those? Or sense magic? Or natural?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Farmer didn’t believe in Marxism, but he was impressed, as I was, by just how much a country with little in the way of natural resources could accomplish. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A garden is thus both natural and artificial, and it is both of these things entirely and simultaneously. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I want to fix your leg up,” I said crazily but in a perfectly natural tone of voice which made my words sound even crazier, even to me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t nearly that big, and it isn’t natural. We’re standing where the white weed started.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I envied them, and found them attractive; moreover this strange quality, far from being natural, gave every indication of having been intensely cultivated. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It just felt like the natural thing to do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This way. There’s a natural vein of iron underground. You can feel it in your crash bracelets.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Had we descended from a fish with four or six phalanges, we would have four or six fingers on each hand and would think them perfectly natural. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That floorwalker could have simply said that monkeys bite or that popcorn is not their natural diet or something like that—but instead he had to think he was a schoolteacher. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

To play the part she played—the perfectly natural, slightly ridiculous American fond mother—an artist was needed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put these on and go to the library. Your momma ought to be coming home soon. You just act natural.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m willing myself not to care, he takes my hand as if it’s the most natural thing in the world and leads me to the back room of a cramped, abandoned shoe shop. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Aristotle explained natural processes in terms of four causes: formal, final, material and efficient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the breezeway thronged with teachers who began moving groups of kids in different directions, getting the flow of bodies aimed again in the natural pattern of traffic. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although styled professor of mathematics, his brief included what we would now call physics and was then called natural philosophy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Mark and Liz are such close friends, it seemed perfectly natural to be cooking for them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With family money from the doctor’s practice and wise investments, Charles would have enough to support himself and a family quite nicely while he pursued natural history and wrote books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke very well about the decency and comradeship natural to animals. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sh—!” The wind was knocked out of my chest by my seat belt, but I fought against the natural turn of the wheel long enough to get us heading straight again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Adah chimed in: “A little ritual killing, a little infant mortality, just a few of the many healthy natural processes we don’t care to think about.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thirteen finches were not created by some divine whim, but by “natural descent”—cascading downward and outward from an original ancestral finch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her natural place was going to school with them, not working competitively with older women. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Big Thumb was actually some kind of natural water tower that caught and stored the rain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I was simply a material, a natural resource to be used. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly natural for them to bring him to El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural for us to practice together and I asked him to join me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing with natural outcomes, setting up an already battered kid for a big fall. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And further out one sees the sea in its natural state, and that’s beautiful. Yesterday everything was grey.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She turned out to be a natural, but I had to cut the workout short. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A week later, when Principal Marcelo gives me the good news, he hugs me, a natural joyful hug, the kind of hug he probably gives to his children every day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the towns erupted into being, quickened by the relentless American thirst, the black farm was there as a natural feature of the landscape, a mountain or a creek. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was so natural to him I doubted he noticed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

These braids were not delicate like a little girl’s but heavy and womanly, possessing a natural power, like a beaver’s tail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The idea of doing so at the Livermore site was, for us, a natural one.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You might as well ask if it’s natural to do up one’s trousers with zippers,” said the Controller sarcastically. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our connection is still so natural, though now, for me, it’s tinged with guilt because of Dad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was good at chess, and he was a natural scholar and athlete. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A natural extrovert, he would leave the hotel as soon as we arrived and hit the streets, learning by seeing and talking to people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of that stone there was a hollow, and into that natural small bowl Omakayas put the leaves that smelled summery and sharp, fresh and potent. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to look natural but I never knew what to do with my hands. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask why he didn’t take the position the leaders offered him; why he is so resistant to leadership when he seems to be a natural leader. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s for . . . it’s for people who were born natural.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Why was I so hostile to Moira B. that day when she was, really, a natural ally? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it came to a decision, Darkclaw was the natural choice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes, Mr. Mason declared my dad a natural. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I had merely stumbled upon another lovely adaptation in nature, itself the product of micromutation and natural selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, if the F sharps are written as G flats, or if the A's are sharp instead of natural, you have a different chord, not an inversion of the same chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was feeling myself beyond any natural right. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Didn’t work for me, but maybe that’s because Mom buys “all natural” toothpaste. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Stream insects, the natural food of trout, had disappeared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She knew how to use natural herbs to cure almost anything. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was natural that their minds leaped on and recoiled, and they would not speak of that, but their minds said, There can’t be any world without Samuel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In Haiti, you own your children and they find it natural,” she would say. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It is worth noting that natural forces had been heavily relied on for control of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As she brought the flame closer to the lamp, the Hall of the Gods grew dark, as if a switch had turned off all the natural light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I saw—when I realized what was happening, my first reaction was the natural one. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mouzaive, the natural philosopher: for the mystery of the citadel’s suspension. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is to be hoped that, if his predecessors made it great by feats of arms, he will make it extremely great and venerable through his natural goodness and his countless virtues. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

What they found is everything you would expect to find if you were comparing children raised in an atmosphere of concerted cultivation with children raised in an atmosphere of natural growth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In a C major chord, for example, that would be any C naturals, E naturals, and G naturals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The dementors will join us . . . they are our natural allies... we will recall the banished giants... Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stood up and hollered that we’d turned over the natural way of things and boy, would we be sorry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs at Snowberger’s, my daddy deals with death by misadventure, illness, and natural causes galore. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ophelia, you are a natural philosopher! If I admit that my heart still beats, will you allow me to admire your beauty?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Its natural consistency is a bit gelatinous and pasty, really, but whipped together with a soup^on of remoulade and spread upon white meat, it’s quite palatable.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Aristotle considered states the natural condition of human society, requiring no explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The public came to imagine that physics held the key to all phenomena of the natural world, including the chemical and the biological. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And the steady customers in both places, the hustlers in Small’s and the entertainers in the Braddock, began to call me “Red,” a natural enough nickname in view of my bright red conk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy nodded, as if stealing were the most natural plan in the world, and carefully put the orchid in his pants pocket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was not natural to him, and his tongue felt like a whale in his mouth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s perfectly natural for Brightbill to eat a few pebbles. They’ll help him digest his food. But not too many, okay, little one?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hard work—more than education, natural ability, or the right connections—is regarded as crucial for getting ahead in life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had then on a dark-blue silk dress; her arms and her neck were bare; her only ornament was her chestnut tresses, which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Constance stumbled because it was her natural method of locomotion, and because her feet hurt from being in the wrong shoes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

An even more general term was available: ‘natural knowledge’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A note that is an octave higher or lower than a note named "C natural" will also be named "C natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By wearing it natural I was saying, “I think I’m as pretty as you are.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Their boat was beached on an indentation in the marsh which provided a natural landing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a magnetic field between the anchors and the citadel,” Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, was telling Kether, artist of siege engines, in the guildhall dining room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We have evolved over millions of years eating plants that today we would call “natural” or “organic.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about natural? I just saw a demon kill a man, was that natural?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Janis asked so many questions that Helen couldn’t answer, though — wasn’t it natural for women to marry? what could it hurt to ask? — that in the evening, she mentioned the man to Theresa, casually. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The southwest coastline was mostly uncharted, and they had no idea what kind of coves or natural harbors they could expect. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Boys like to scare one another with stories after dark. They talk about vampires and the chupacabras. It’s natural, but sometimes it gets out of hand.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you catch me in all my natural, unposed… Wait. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For her part, Leanna says, she has daydreamed about having a life that would seem as natural as her brother’s, a life in which she would not feel like an outsider in her hometown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And my mother squared her shoulders and bragged: “Our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It’s like you can’t stop this natural talent.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, such as those of gravity and natural selection, are commonly called theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was only the famished young dog who really suffered, for he was not a natural hunter, and wasted a lot of ill-afforded energy in pursuit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I will carry it with me because red is a lucky color, and very important in the natural world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You told me they were to be eradicated. That they were a blight on the natural world.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so far, this gesture seems natural and comforting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The gosling was much better at understanding natural things like islands and forests and parents. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time they were in grade school, close-order drill was as natural as breathing and as hateful as hell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On some nights you can see a shower of meteors, always on the same few days of every year—a natural fireworks display, an entertainment in the heavens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tic was as natural to him as breathing and blinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The natural resources of the area were enough to support its human population. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the voyage, Charles had been a typical natural history collector. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result her feet were smaller than natural feet but larger than bound ones. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sitting at it felt natural, like something I was meant to do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s natural to think that if the number of men is very large, this probability should be quite small. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lesson one of natural water: never dive in blind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The simulation is using her vocal cords, but robs them of the natural fluctuations of human emotion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally leaving behind ancient Aristotelian beliefs, insect scholars had begun to agree with Goedart that direct observation was the only reliable approach to studying natural processes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park was a natural place for the quintet to land, its endless city-within-a-city blocks a ready-made brew of neighbors, social organizations, and advice for newcomers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jealousy we understood and thought natural—a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed, using the natural athleticism his gangly legs allowed, circled Mr. Flux twice, looping the rope around his calves. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And in my part of the world, there is no greater temple to all things organic, natural, and unprocessed than my local Whole Foods supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fred wasn’t a natural dancer like Chico, but no dog in the cast worked harder than he did. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This is the case of a man’s mistaking a whole race of men as a part of the natural structure of the universe and of his acting toward them accordingly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I eat very little. Herbalist says it’s not unusual for someone my age. It’s part of the natural process.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural to add a nice little lace cloth for the table. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collecting natural wonders became a mark of wealth, knowledge, and good taste. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People, except Momma and Uncle Willie, accepted my unwillingness to talk as a natural outgrowth of a reluctant return to the South. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd gotten the overall picture, but natural or not, there was no way I was going to take responsibility for this one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had practiced this so many times in the zero G airplane that it seemed very natural now. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around me the happy atmosphere resumed its natural state. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied them and organized them by kind—in the tradition of natural historians. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a young-looking man, in spite of his perplexities and his very grey hair, and his manner seemed quite natural. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A spectrum of roses ranging in shades from natural to the unimaginable sits in the golden lap of the elephant-headed statue in the foyer, petals cascading down whenever anyone moves by. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Darwin’s phrase “natural selection” refers to certain individuals of a species surviving better, and / or reproducing more successfully, than competing individuals of the same species under natural conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gardens are fashioned for many purposes with many different tools, but all are collaborations with natural forces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the rise of Darwinian theory, explanations were recast in terms of natural selection and of evolutionary descent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could act less robotic and more natural. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In June 1858, Wallace sent Darwin a tentative draft of his paper outlining his general theory of evolution by natural selection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Much of it was natural to him; the rest he would pick up as he went along. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any AB and NAB naturals out there who want to share their regimen? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was a pale, thin-faced, twitchy boy who, I had to admit, seemed out of place in the Hull family with their free and natural ways. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starkey referred to the adage ‘Hear the other side’, a fundamental principle of natural justice, as ‘hateful’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Succinctly: The law of large numbers gives a theoretical basis for the natural idea that a theoretical probability is some kind of guide to the real world, to what actually happens. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the experimental chambers, Mr. Gitney delivered addresses on our expedition to witness the Transit of Venus and the determination of natural law. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was beyond his control, and though this was due to the natural parameters of his gift and no personal failing, it didn't spare him Minya’s judgment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Poor parents tend to follow, by contrast, a strategy of “accomplishment of natural growth.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was a natural warrior, Grandmother’s voice argued. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At night there was the equally eerie sight of the gas flares, huge fissures of fire coming from the oil rigs where natural gas, an unwanted burden back then, was being burned off. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen them on TV before, the trailers the government puts up for people who’ve lost their homes in natural disasters. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Apologies did not come natural to me, but I had no choice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akhi had helped me perfect my craft and develop my natural talents of timing and speed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Volpe was at first shocked to find one of the school’s top athletes among those competing for parts, then delighted by Massari’s voice and natural ease. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It takes three years for Natasha's natural hair to grow in fully. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see anything, since so little natural light came in and he hadn’t thought to bring a flashlight or candles with him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All of these beliefs seemed perfectly natural to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do,” said the Wart, “and sometimes I don’t On the whole I can bear a good deal of learning if it is about natural history.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Matt was used to bodyguards at all family affairs, and it seemed natural for them to be there. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a natural feel for the beats in the music—could easily sync my movements to the rhythm—but that wasn’t enough. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d just had a natural gift for sports, they hadn’t trained him; no, Mr. Wright had never been much good at sports himself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a time the rhythm began to feel almost natural. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You have natural talent. You could been genius if you want to.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The philosophers found such an answer unsatisfactory, even though something similar was to be found in Pliny’s Natural History, and sought a natural explanation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On August 16, he appeared before his examiners to be tested in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been washed into a cave of some kind; but it’s not a natural one. Look at these flagstones.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I expect we shall get on very well when she knows me better,” I said quickly, “after all, it’s natural enough that she should resent me a bit at first.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sound and light, Doppler argued, behaved according to universal and natural laws—even if these were deeply counterintuitive to ordinary viewers or listeners. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile let her hair grow and grow in thick, natural braids, and she stuck pencils and pens in it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And for a little while longer he lay quietly with weak breathing, as if perhaps waiting for normal and natural conditions to reemerge out of the complete stillness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Designer is a natural, appealing and altogether human explanation of the biological world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had no friends he was welcomed by his obsequious class mates and took up a natural and cold position of leadership in the schoolyard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they sound the same, E sharp and F natural, as they are actually used in music, are different notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If heredity too had a universal natural law, then it was likely influencing the genesis of peas as much as the genesis of humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In a loose, conversational sense, some implies “some, but not all”: when I say Some men are chauvinists, it’s natural to interpret me as implying that others are not. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For example, if, in an augmented G sharp major chord, you rewrite the D double sharp as an E natural, the triad becomes an E augmented chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He’d already had his hair shaved into a low buzz cut to hide his natural curls. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand. Did you really swim all those miles just to die in this hut?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The damage in Shangla was even worse, and fundamentalist religious leaders suggested once again that God had sent a natural disaster as punishment for enjoying un-Islamic behaviors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You been mighty natural and considerate,” the mother said to the younger children later when she went to the woodpile and called them to pick dry kindling for a quick fire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A natural arch of stone framed a wide road, worn smooth by many rat feet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stretching over the dunes were huge evergreen bushes that formed natural huts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Later he added, with annoyance, “A person can ask, I suppose. It seems a natural question, with the sentries.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indigenous peoples sustained their populations not only by adapting to their specific natural environments but also by changing their environments to meet their needs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But this natural beauty was invisible to us behind Pollsmoor’s high concrete walls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, no one had uncovered any natural cause for her death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We are so peaceful that none of us has died even of a natural death,” he said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"We won't change her at the same time. We just need to see her natural template and find out what's wrong." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mostly she watched...everything: us kids playing in the river, the way the trees tilted to the north towards what was left of the natural landscape beyond the clear-cuts stripped of topsoil. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His story makes clear that education is a long, unglamorous, even demeaning process—a nurturing never natural to the person one was before one entered a classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanings inscribed by God in the forms of things, the great chain of being, sympathy and antipathy, natural magic, had been replaced by blind mechanisms and inexorable laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

A double flat is two half steps lower than the natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Biologists used to entertain themselves by speculating as to what would happen if, through some unthinkable catastrophe, the natural restraints were thrown off and all the progeny of a single individual survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It's natural, in the end, to get nostalgic about the beginning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their manners seemed natural ; they were not putting on any airs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A natural comedian, he never waited for the laugh that he knew must follow his droll statements. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guests became suddenly aware that they were singing merrily, as if it was easier and more natural than talking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Primitive man, in noticing the relatively few natural coincidences in his environment, slowly developed the raw observational data out of which science evolved. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading Malthus and thinking about the natural world, Charles realized that nature was not happy and peaceful, as Paley had described in his natural theology books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now to be fair, it was probably natural to run these two subjects together. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But enough about me. Something tells me you aren’t here to enjoy yourself. Unless, in your old age, this look of constipation has become your natural expression. Honestly, I can’t tell.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Under natural conditions, a typical chimpanzee troop consists of about twenty to fifty individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made a natural ladder and even provided places to sit and catch her breath. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Younger, one- syllable tykes were not allowed in the Field, so it was natural that Matt would be curious and a little in awe. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the blade and start to ask her if we should leave her natural shape intact. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Her looks have been a mess lately. Can't you see her eyes and nose? They've always been a problem. Her natural template is flawed." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t natural and it didn’t look right, but Sam said it would have been more unnatural for him to have laid down on his side and died like any other beast. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sadly, like the racial caste systems that preceded it, the system of mass incarceration now seems normal and natural to most, a regrettable necessity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Back in London, he talked with Hensleigh about science and religion, working out his thoughts about transmutation of species, about God, and about natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the note in between D natural and E natural can be named either D sharp or E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She did not breathe deeply; she did not need to: the air simply floated towards her, drawn by her natural authority, until there was nothing left for others. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Always predicting things that come true. Always dreaming stuff and it come out. Fella says I should go in the business. Says I’m a natural medium. You remember that?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What is more natural than the tics and habits of one’s close relatives? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We would doubtless think the circumstances natural and lovely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what's in a relaxer? That stuff can kill you. You need to cut your hair and go natural.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this from how natural it had felt to enter Rex Reese’s body, how right it felt, and I knew this from the shocked expression on Jerome’s face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It sounded a very natural laugh, but Digory had seen an eager, almost a greedy, look on his face. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

On occasion they were so natural that he identified them as premonitions only after they had been fulfilled. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A team of six other American men with varying backgrounds—from natural history to arctic exploration—would accompany him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Down the stairs, the natural cavern beneath the barn welcomed her with a cool breeze. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Over the years, Roosevelt’s enthusiasm and interest in natural history had not waned. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps what I felt was nothing more than Denna’s natural charm, her charisma. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s more people than work in coal, oil, and natural gas combined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Aisha snorted; she clearly could not understand why anybody would choose to suffer through combing natural hair, instead of simply relaxing it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the natural world, variations in genotype exist in wild populations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that we should wait for Puli, and sure enough he joined us a few minutes later. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s one of those natural athletes who can do any sporty thing under the sun. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We played sandlot baseball and rarely had a ball that was not taped, or resewn so that it had a lump in it that gave it a natural curve when you threw it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Nothing had ever felt so natural; it was as if I thought the sound, and by thinking it brought it into being. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People thought I was making a statement, when I was simply wearing my natural hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Our aim should be to guide natural processes as cautiously as possible in the desired direction rather than to use brute force. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Examples of successful biological control of serious pests by importing their natural enemies are to be found in some 40 countries distributed over much of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Laughter in the presence of an Egyptian sphinx or an Assyrian bird-beast was inconceivable; but it was perfectly natural in Olympus, and it made the gods companionable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said that Governor Thomas Corbett had proposed that the state’s institutions of higher learning should consider closing their budget shortfalls by drilling for natural gas on their campuses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In an effort to supply this natural food, the Canadians have attempted to transplant caddis fly larvae and other insects to the barren reaches of the Miramichi. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Were mutations sudden and spontaneous, or were abundant natural genetic variations already present in wild populations? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed a strangely intimate thing to tell him, although it was said in the same dry, sarcastic tone that seemed natural to her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he had certainly corresponded with Newton about the comet, and may have met him in 1682, so it is natural that he should have taken an opportunity to visit Cambridge when it arose. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had given him life, and expected him to respect it and live it out to its natural end. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Quickly. To a motel. My natural impulses are screaming for release. Do you have any money on you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took it with a natural gesture, as if she had been prepared for that homage, and then she uncovered her face and gave her thanks with a smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Preliminary indications suggest Miss Parrish may have died of natural causes, but police have not yet ruled out foul play or drug use. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Charles’s American friend Asa Gray was one of those people who wanted to see God’s hand in the design of flowers, but he also thought that Charles’s argument for natural selection was right. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conventional racing wisdom holds that a horse’s natural running style cannot be altered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to these historians, replication is a social artefact, not a natural fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The crisp woolen uniform he now wears is beginning to look almost as natural on him as his pirate outfit had. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The angel, startled by Amarante’s voice, froze stiff with its ears lying back flat; and then, realizing there was no immediate danger, it turned to observe the puzzling natural phenomenon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These bigger settlements required more centralized administration; natural resources like good land and spawning streams, though not scarce, now needed to be managed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once in a while I had us living in a foreign country like New York, where she could adopt me and we could both stay our natural color. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand the way I always stand, easy, natural, and lift both my arms, squeezing the gun with one hand and steadying it with the other. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was just afraid, which was only natural. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was, rather, a natural driver, for whom the wheel seemed a logical extension of his hands. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confidence in experimental knowledge thus requires the natural/artificial distinction to be undermined and replaced by the conviction that by performing procedures that correspond to natural processes I can have true knowledge of those processes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a relentless cross-examination by Maisels, Murray admitted that the charter was in fact a humanitarian document that might well represent the natural reaction and aspirations of nonwhites to the harsh conditions in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural next stop is the fields, which are behind the school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Anne Frank’s book was a natural choice, but I was really excited to discover the book by the young Bosnian writer, who critics are hailing as a “modern-day Anne Frank.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The natural seasons for chicken are the spring and summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most blacks in Philadelphia didn’t have this natural immunity and would suffer the ravages of the fever along with whites. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the eastern areas where the beetles have been longest established, attempts have been made to set up natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My brain was so feverish, it couldn’t have judged what was natural and what was not. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Roosevelt wasn’t a natural athlete, he possessed another quality that made him stand out. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. And how long will they stay 'mental'? The term of your natural life? Twenty years? No possibility of parole?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It is only natural for goslings your age to be a little...moody.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Sell them when you have to. If you must. But they are also excellent and natural messengers." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

—Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But at the same time that he devoured Paley and theology, Charles was devouring natural history and collecting specimens, especially beetles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know the game well, but he had a natural ability. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I simply had no natural inclination for water; cleanliness was a trait I still had to acquire. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To ascend to the origin of things, and speculate on creation, is not the business of the natural philosopher,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before that, her seeming acceptance of her fate wasn’t natural. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

With its bleachers set into the slope and its natural acoustics, it was a perfect mini-Epidaurus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They’d survived the worst natural disaster in known human history—maybe the corner had been turned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If we lived in an interstellar spacecraft that could accelerate at 1 g, we would find ourselves in a perfectly natural environment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that they needed each other, as all good sister cities should, but instead they had spent most of their histories trying to prove just the opposite. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers and sisters in Detroit and Chicago had all become converted to what they were being taught was the “natural religion for the black man” of which Philbert had written to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the one there is change and natural movement is vertical, while in the other there is no change and natural movement is circular. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I felt myself to be among the survivors of some great natural disaster, some plague, some avalanche or earthquake. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In 1845, as part of his monastic education, Mendel attended classes in theology, history, and natural sciences at Brno’s Theological College. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Up until this point, if a natural historian saw variation between creatures thought to be of the same species, he ignored it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural seasons for red meat are fall and winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When Marsh showed an interest in natural history, Peabody had a museum built for him at Yale and provided funds sufficient for Marsh to fill it with almost whatever took his fancy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His hand in mine as we walk feels like the most natural thing in the world. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Though of course we both have our natural beauty, as the hippopotamus said to the rat.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, scientists must look for “natural experiments,” in which something similar befell humans in the past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mercy stirred and asked, in a quite natural voice, for a sip of water, and Rachel’s haggard face lighted with a smile. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His more natural domain was a high-backed booth near the rear of Day’s Restaurant on University Way where he sipped coffee and read his history. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, you read the questions and I’ll read the answers; that way, it will sound more natural.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They cross-talked for a while, then hit one of those natural breaks in the conversation and both turned to look at me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After all, microbes are as much a product of natural selection as we are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That in itself was an impressive feat; the domino guys were notorious for continuing games unabated through all kinds of natural disasters and even, infamously, a shoot-out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The difference between the intervals A to E natural and A to E flat is even more noticeable. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So we asked him all the natural questions: where he’d been and where he was going and so forth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the education journals of the day, there were constant worries about overtaxing students or blunting their natural abilities through too much schoolwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It is done by simply passing the bits around from mind to mind, until something like natural selection makes the final selection, all on grounds of fitness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Nebraska, what are the island’s natural resources, please? Report.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If anyone were ever to witness the moths behaving in such a coordinated way, they would have to grow suspicious that these were no natural creatures. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet it would be wrong to think that they shared any common understanding of what natural science is or how it should be conducted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I am rather of the opinion," said Rabadash, "that it has come about by the alteration of the stars and the operation of natural causes." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed a natural arrogance that felt good. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is death from natural causes,” she said with confidence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everything was so natural, so well handled, and so calmly acted out that I had the ridiculous impression of being “one of the family.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was a natural teacher, and believed in utilizing every minute. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flat sign means "the note that is one half step lower than the natural note." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“They look more natural standing on the street than in front of the picture-man’s cardboard church window.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black hole seems to be the only really natural explanation of the observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Most days Olmsted was driven by carriage through the countryside, “every day more or less on a different road,” to view gardens, churchyards, private parks, and the natural landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I asked if we could speak in English for the interview; it felt more natural to talk to the American in English, and with Engel there to translate, the Hauptsturmführer did not mind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Still, somehow the Angel kids survived this—perhaps by a means that I might describe as... not entirely natural. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

For the first time in several weeks, I had clean sheets, enough to eat, and natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put a bit of a drawl in my voice, stressing the natural cadence of my words. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Combustible natural products inevitably make themselves noticed, as when a resinous log explodes in a campfire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My nails are bitten to the bleeding point, so it will look natural. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That Vilthuril’s a beautiful doe. I’d like a chance to get to know her better. After all, it’s not natural to rabbits, is it?—on and on day after day.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had a panic attack from the most mild and natural illegal substance on the market, then it was safe to say I would experience a psychotic break on a hallucinogenic. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care about that,” grumbled Doli, rubbing his ears, which had only now begun to return to their natural color. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I knew what it was to be a natural at something. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once I let the clothes take charge, once I understand that I am only the means of their reunification, they just fly out of the cart to their natural homes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result is a natural experiment on a grand scale. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew my brother, Potter. He learned secrecy at our mother’s knee. Secrets and lies, that’s how we grew up, and Albus...he was a natural.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They are too evenly matched, and their natural defenses are too formidable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a tool that can be used to kill someone, of course, but more significantly, a gun is a great disrupter of the natural order. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Or rather two pupils, for at the end of the first lesson he said Goblin was the finest natural jumper he had ever seen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the natural order of things, and Raul could use it to destroy him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had virtually ransacked Africa looking for these life forms, but despite his searches he had never found them in their natural hiding places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went down and down until he passed the level of packed garbage and came to natural earth and rock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A great natural ingenuity, and an apparently remorseless determination to mislead justice.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, he extinguished his headlights and hid the car in a natural cul-de-sac on the edge of the forest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Szilard and Wigner, who had left the initial meeting confident that the urgency of research was understood at the highest levels of government, now came face-to-face with the natural sluggishness of the bureaucratic process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He knew the ship’s speed, and could sense no rocks, sandbars, or other natural dangers in their path. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then presently I came unattached from the natural world. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the book, Charles was trying to make a strong, coherent, cogent argument for creation by natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I know. Me, too. It’s natural. I mean, it must be natural.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It is most natural, Madame. And now to return to the question you did not answer. Where is the younger daughter of Linda Arden, the sister of Mrs. Armstrong?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fall has been laid at the door of overpopulation, overuse of natural resources, and drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What was I, a man or a natural resource? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those that survived this “natural selection” would restart the grim cycle again—Sisyphus moving from one famine to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Riding, he said without exaggeration, “is as natural as walking to me.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody thought it natural for her to play. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They laughed like this, at each other’s reflection in the mirror, their eyes tearing, and the moment was so natural, so effortless, that suddenly Mariam started telling her about Jalil, and Nana, and the jinn. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Several natural enemies of the spotted alfalfa aphid, an accidental import from the Middle East, are credited with saving the California alfalfa industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She tugged on it but it wouldn’t close, so she pushed it open again to free it, and then it seemed the most natural thing in the world to enter the yard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mami was not one to take chances with our natural high spirits and tendency to ignore what she told us the minute she turned her back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one wore their hair in its natural state either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One need only place beside them in imagination any Greek statue of a god, so normal and natural with all its beauty, to perceive what a new idea had come into the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a consequence I’d lost the natural counterpoint between the lake and the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they woke up, the natural scenes had gone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length with surprise. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was surprised at how natural it felt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It must have been natural for him, smiling like that. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some believe they are natural features, perhaps relics of lightning fires, and some believe that they are man-made, burned or cleared to provide land for summer grazing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Zanesville syndicate looked at all the best natural qualities of the country and decided to attribute them to Odessa whether they were there or not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pond separates our yard from Mr. Bender’s, and the small creek that feeds it separates our neighbors’ yards to the south, like a natural curving fence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Were the reported tools at the site really tools made by humans, or just natural rock shapes? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our slowest defensive response is through natural selection, which changes our gene frequencies from generation to generation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Underlying experimentation, therefore, there must be a theory of the regularity and economy of nature; the natural world has to be the sort of world that could, in principle, be interpreted through experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, our intuitions and perceptions might allow us to grasp these natural laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It feels so natural the way that Kim is talking to me like she always does. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A series of articles that von Braun contributed to Collier’s magazine in 1952—“Man Will Conquer Space Soon!”—presented space travel as the natural next step for the restless inhabitants of the Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She slid back into the cave and let her pounding heart settle down to its natural rhythm. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twilight was closing in when I went downstairs into the natural air. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Could a rare but natural event, the impact of a sizable cometary fragment, trigger a nuclear war? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably, though we thought not so soon and not so many; a rat has a natural set of tools that monkeys lack: sharp, pointed teeth that never stop growing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the paragraphs above, for instance, it seemed natural to talk about traveling through a speech “step by step,” or of traveling through “well-known territory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She’d thought crossing the creek would save her, but this path led to a hill at the creek’s edge—a natural ramp. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He practiced these until they were natural to him, part of who he was, the bokken an extension of his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Paley wrote about natural history, arguing that if you examined specimens carefully, you could see how beautifully they were created, how perfect they were in their adaptations. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a gentle child, a natural peacemaker and he tried to bring about some sort of reconciliation between me and his mother. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Freya herself rode to the battlefield and claimed her share of the dead, and to the Norse poets that was a natural and fitting office for the Goddess of Love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was all angles and light, with fawnlike dark brown eyes, a straight nose, full lips painted just a shade pinker than their natural color. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Margaret said, “Don’t you think it’s a natural curiosity? I remember when Connor here was a baby, I actually asked to change his nappy. Once.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled big in all of them, so natural, like she was actually happy to have her picture taken. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I think only if he’s cornered. He’s lost his natural ferocity. His claws are covered. If—if I could find him, I think he’d come quietly.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I noted, not for the first time lately, how well he looked, how his stiff sad manner had relaxed into a more natural one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the shrine was something natural, like a special bush or stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It collected hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the world’s largest insurance companies on falsified claims for industrial accidents and natural disasters inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don’t you? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galton’s idea was simple: he would mimic the mechanism of natural selection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Almost all animals are disturbed by the approach of thunder, which oppresses them with its mounting tension and breaks the natural rhythm by which they live. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo de Vries had proposed that mutations were responsible for variation: changes in genes created changes in forms that could be selected by natural forces. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One option—the one most frequently adopted—was to continue to use the terms of Latin origin: ‘natural philosophy’ and ‘natural philosopher’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But it had to look natural; that was the difficulty. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Is Integrative: Provides excellent opportunities for integration as a natural entry or pivot point to other subject areas such as social studies, history, literature, language, and all of the arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The minority report argued that the Fourteenth Amendment was intended “to secure the natural rights of citizens as well as their equal capacities before the law.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I reach for her hand, and then it seems natural to continue the gesture and give her the hug I’ve refused Papa all month. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small shadow at first, maybe a squirrel or a chipmunk, but then it grew larger and larger, quicker than any natural shadow could grow, until it loomed over them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even Lyell, who did not agree with everything Charles was thinking, urged him to publish something about his theory of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God knows, it is natural to mourn your father, but do not let your grief destroy your reason,” pleaded Horatio, taking my hand in his. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Within these families certain notes have more prominence than others, a hierarchy evolved from the natural properties of sounds in all resonant materials. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her natural instinct was to follow Vonetta, but this time she wouldn’t. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I realize how you feel," he said, becoming an actor who'd just finished a part in a play and was speaking again in his natural voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Creatures could only use wheels on a world that provided them with natural highways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To youth and natural cheerfulness like Emma’s, though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Any other time, I would have pondered on that, but right then it seemed natural. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But natural history became his true passion and now, after the voyage, in 1838, Charles was having serious doubts about God and Jesus, about the Revelation, about heaven and hell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar seems like he has natural disasters under the skin too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Another death or two, however natural when Hercules was present, would have blurred the picture he wanted to paint. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sympathy lamps were mixed with candles, giving the room a natural light without fouling the air with smoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But was it not natural to dodge a blow? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, too, in French you find ‘physic’ in the singular, not the plural, to mean natural science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They suggested that he might be some exotic animal their uncle had caught in some remote corner of the world and that perhaps in his natural habitat he was wild. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was becoming clear that this was her natural approach to things. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It began to pop and crackle as the flames got to the natural oils in the branches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, natural as you like, she turned away to fix her gaze on some other imaginary student in another part of the room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t the same principle apply in the case of a devastating natural disaster, such as a plague? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I had to talk to her first, and then, after I did, maybe it would start to feel natural. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Aristotle believed that knowledge, including natural philosophy, should be fundamentally deductive in character. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After so many weeks of natural sounds, these mechanical noises were strange and awesome and stunned me into silence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They squeezed it, twisting it at the ends until it regained its natural weight. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jack says, “Those are sediments, bud. Just dirt and sand. All natural.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without knowledge and resources, where was that going to get me? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the Flood had to be seen as a true miracle, not a mere natural event which happened to coincide with an excess of human depravity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though the piece carried no byline, the style was Owen’s and no one in the world of the natural sciences doubted the authorship. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s ridiculous that Africans don’t value our natural hair in Africa,” Yagazie said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The organism remains viable in the soil for years and therefore be comes to all intents and purposes permanently established, increasing in effectiveness, and being continuously spread by natural agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the wise old grandfather found out, instead of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She thought she would be nervous, but it seemed natural to say Charlotte’s words aloud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She said she looked better on camera in natural light. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Gray-haired women draped in natural shawls showed their yellow teeth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The natural culprit was an abnormality in the gene for hemoglobin—the protein that carries oxygen and is present abundantly in red cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess so. But I don’t think I know how. It doesn’t come natural to me.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the jouncing up and down first of the horses and then the train, the dust of the road, and her natural inclination to get queasy, she was losing energy before my very eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these cases the first belief has the facts on its side and the second doesn’t; one version of natural philosophy established itself over its opponent through the superiority of its grasp over nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Crops and livestock yield natural fibers for making clothing, blankets, nets, and rope. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Renaissance theory of signatures, some natural objects had their significance apparent in their form. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

E sharp and F natural sound the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Grytviken was a Norwegian outpost on Stromness Bay, a natural harbor at the base of the island’s rugged alpine cliffs and glaciers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In Edinburgh, some of the professors and students loved natural history, and Charles learned from them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To these natural population controls were added cultural mechanisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justin had said there was a natural meadow ideal for camping about an hour’s walk farther on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His father, who worked at a natural gas plant for Gulf as a shift supervisor, had not gone to the game that day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had a natural gift for words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

However, keep in mind that a child’s vocal apparatus is still developing, and imitating adult singing with scoops, chest voice, or belting is affected singing and not natural. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“She fell down the front steps when we were leaving,” I offered, returning to my natural fibbing habit. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar ones apply to other historical subjects whose place among the natural sciences is nevertheless secure, including astronomy, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and paleontology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"A treat for your feet. Made from all natural ingredients, it neutralizes odor-causing fungi and bacteria. Plus, you'll like the tingle." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t let him sway you, son. You’re a natural at this game,” the man said without his usual smile. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ran to the middle of the bridge—a natural choke point—and threw his bait of poisonous roots on the deck behind him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was dumbstruck by the natural beauty of the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s still confusing. You guys named a natural weather phenomenon?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Yet feeding corn to cattle goes against the natural order almost as much feeding them beef. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Waltzed right through every single one of my natural defenses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That the mechanism of evolution is natural selection is the great discovery associated with the names of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The speaker’s natural hair was cut as low as a boy’s and her pretty face, wide-foreheaded and fleshless, reminded Ifemelu of the East Africans who always won long-distance races on television. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is the natural job of a doe making a home for her litter before they are born, and then her buck helps her. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural to leave this to her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Another is pottery, which may have arisen from observations of the behavior of clay, a very widespread natural material, when dried or heated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Byron chirped up, “Ain’t that the whole natural truth?” but Dad didn’t miss a beat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just chose natural things. How about paintings, or music. We say, ‘The potter makes a beautiful vase.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The higher version the boys sing is made up of identical notes to the men’s, but at a higher register; so there is a fixed, natural distance between the two identical lines of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Though they may harness winds and currents, they are unable to control these natural forces, and are always constrained by their physical design. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the decade wore on and they delved more deeply into the intricacies of atomic structure, their picture of the natural world grew only murkier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Evidently it was the natural formation of the terrain that inspired this extraordinary work of landscape architecture, as mysterious and moving in its way as Stonehenge. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such questions are as natural as an infant’s smile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnet’s argument was met with widespread horror; as Herbert Croft, the bishop of Hereford, put it, ‘This way of philosophizing all from natural causes, I fear, will make the whole world turn scoffers.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a natural alliance, is it,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Almost imperceptibly, the supposedly supernatural is transformed into the natural. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Who killed her?” asked the King, as if it were the natural question. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having no natural controls in this new territory, they spread prodigiously, eventually occupying about 60 million acres. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Moriori and Maori history constitutes a brief, small-scale natural experiment that tests how environments affect human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You can also name and write the F natural as "E sharp"; F natural is the note that is a half step higher than E natural, which is the definition of E sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Caesar and Peeta have been a natural team since they first appeared together a year ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a good natural athlete, though he never liked the competitive aspects of sports. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons that I’ve especially admired some of them, like Lionel Hampton and Sidney Poiter, among others, is that they have kept their natural hair and fought to the top. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows full well what it’s like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t tell you about the sleeping pills because you’d fight them. It's only natural. And it was imperative to the plan that we all go to sleep immediately.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

These chaps all looked so natural, so . . . earthy. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley ended her speech with a stern look, as if it had been Harry suggesting that it was natural to miss spark plugs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural for him to question me, nor did I mind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He had reached the end of his natural life.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet such a flow of blood must be a natural wonder that physicians have surely witnessed and philosophers written of. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He grasped for hope in Emerson’s vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These natural chemicals are important for a healthy diet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even Alfred Russel Wallace, the naturalist who had also come up with the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, now working on a book that would be published soon—Miracles and Modem Spiritualism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural now for her to sit at Dad’s place in the chairman’s chair, with a pitcher of ice water at her right. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know about the spiritual world and you know about the natural world. It’s the perfect partnership. That’s probably why fate brought us together as friends.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene; indeed, you have to perform rather bizarre experimental contortions to uncover the idea of discrete particles of inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had had several messes with the police, mostly in gambling raids, and regarded them as the natural hazards of Negro life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cradle didn’t wear her hair natural, but in a wavy do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bright color, not an earth or natural color, and for a second he could not place it, then he knew it for what it was. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also four possible approaches for separating fissionable U-235 from natural ore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One important natural check is a limit on the amount oT~suitable habitat for each species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I suppose it is natural at a time like that for a boy to think of his mother. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They know. I guess they come by it kinda natural.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The answer: knowledge of natural processes based on evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was cold, but it didn’t feel like natural cold. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My solitude seemed complete and the familiar natural sights brought me peace. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Miss Bennet’s astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And everything has just felt really natural and comfortable between us since that night in the car after the Waffle House. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The sight of dried matter in the corner of the eye, decayed or missing teeth, ear wax, blackheads, moles, blisters, skin crusts—all the natural excretions and protections the body was capable of—disquieted him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mulch withdrew his thumbs and, after a quick wipe, thrust them in his mouth, allowing the natural balm in his saliva to begin the healing process. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The enemy are not trained fighters like we are, not natural killers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The numbers were staggering and clearly defied a natural death rate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I am sure he must have been a gentleman,” said Sir Bliant “He kept doing things which nobody but a gentleman would do. He had a natural leaning to arms.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dialogue seemed natural, almost as if they were still playing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But if they were ever questioned or arrested in America, they needed to know their new life histories inside and out so they sounded natural and, most important, believable. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As Boobie tried to find the natural rhythm of the year before, Mike edged closer and closer to a dream he had quietly harbored for much of his life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because maybe then, this bravery will start to feel more natural. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her real name was Mary Ann Evans, and she had come with her longtime companion, George Lewes, who wrote about natural history and was an advocate of Darwinism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Checking her reflection in the back of her cereal spoon, she thought they looked surprisingly natural. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is only from the 1640s that natural philosophy becomes a crucial category, largely owing to the influence of Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whether it’s natural or from years of practice, I don’t know, but there’s something in her manner of speaking that suggests a cat’s purr. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he hadn’t accomplished it; very likely it could have been a natural process. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When lice were collected and tested, it was found that 5 per cent DDT powder caused no increase in their natural mortality rate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a little bit like shaping a wild, natural landscape into identifiable patterns for the benefit of the human onlooker. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So it was only natural for me to come to love the dog that saved him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing could be more natural and proper than for my Professor to open a school, and for me to prefer to reside in my own estate.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. It took a while to get the photo the way I wanted it. My grandmother kept posing for a glamour shot. I had to explain that I wanted her to look more natural.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Both were natural leaders, earning the respect of their companions and their superiors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It would be only natural to suppose that this order should apply not only to the laws, but also to the conditions at the boundary of space-time that specify the initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But rayon is both natural and artificial, being made from wood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Percival was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those differences arose initially from natural variation among the wild plants themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

More and more she was coming to trust Matthias’s natural skill as a leader and tactician. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The word organic has become a kind of shorthand for food that is healthier or more natural or chemical-free. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The heated debates about Homo sapiens’ ‘natural way of life’ miss the main point. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was so much more natural to have him stay, when he was not absolutely required to leave her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

For tens of millions of years these enormous, intelligent, communicative creatures evolved with essentially no natural enemies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blade is covered with mud right up to his neck, which on him looks natural. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The right arm is barely visible and the head appears to have been omitted altogether, for lack of “cooperation” on the part of the natural surface. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, Andean stories tell of spirits embodied in stones and giants transformed into natural features. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Amari wondered how she could explain the need to work in harmony with the natural world. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deb just loves it. She is such a natural!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Nowhere does he acknowledge that there was such a thing as ‘natural science’; in the text he considers only natural philosophy and mathematics, not ‘physiology’, ‘physics’, etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She set up her easel under the stovepipe, right next to the back window, because she said it got natural sunlight—which it did, relatively speaking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Carl did little to assuage the natural distrust an ordinary man feels for a man of physical stature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She achieved something like her natural sleep position—curled on her side, her hands tucked under one cheek. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or else a natural catastrophe, like a landslide. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The half-dozen oil lamps around the room sputtered back into life, filling the room with natural light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“While for the past month you’ve left Nathan hanging, I have been attempting to give him answers. It’s natural that he should confide in me when he is told such a thing.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And the same rule seems to apply to all “natural” memories. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I make do with on-hand materials, what I can chip out of you, your natural ore. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparrow and Ruby threw snowballs at each other, their laughter a bit too sharp, their aim a bit too true, and Minya slipped away somewhere, promising to release the ghost, Ari-Eil, to his natural evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When the townies talk about her, they say: You know that's her natural color? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Would it stop when it reached the centre, its natural resting place? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if you looked carefully, all the chaotic and complex phenomena of the world were the result of highly organized natural laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When Winston followed her, he found that they were in a natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by tall saplings that shut it in completely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

An example of a much more difficult invention is writing, which does not suggest itself by observation of any natural material. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each plant population becomes genetically programmed, through natural selection, to respond appropriately to signals of the seasonal regime under which it has evolved. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the city, the buildings were stone, intricately carved with scenes from the natural world and the mythic one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In 1907, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, was asked to review one of Lowell’s books. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor had put in a replacement ligament, but it was hard to construct one that could handle the natural stress caused by the constant starting and stopping of running with the football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some Foretelling groups artificially arouse perversion in a normal person—injecting female or male hormones during the days before a session. It’s better to have a natural one. He’s willing to come; likes the notoriety.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the face of the stony wall there was something like a stair: natural perhaps, and made by the weathering and splitting of the rock, for it was rough and uneven. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When he reached the point, he picked a natural saddle between two rocks and sat down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A small stone breakwater had been thrown out across the cove for shelter, and behind it the bay formed a tiny natural harbour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mira, been seeing a lot of you lately,” she replied with a smile as big as her natural fluffy hair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I cheer for the little kid with a tiny child-size ball who finally hits a pin, and try not to stare at the man with so many tattoos that I can’t see his natural skin. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Phusis became the source of physic, which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quickly built a reputation for being brilliant, a natural scholar who could glance at a book and know it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. It is most natural. I am now in the compartment that he had formerly.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tee just grinned like all this was the most natural thing in the world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Your old man would love that. Only natural for a father to want his son to walk his walk. He always said he thought you’d be great at the paper business.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, the younger, was somewhat graceless, but she had the natural distinction, the inner tightness of her dead grandmother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The Amyr are dramatic figures. When we are young we all pretend to be Amyr and fight battles with willow-switch swords. It is natural for boys to be attracted to those stories.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"No, I could not say so. Sad, for a certainty. Yet in its own way, death is the most natural thing of all, Lord Eddard. Jon Arryn rests easy now, his burdens lifted at last." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether I would record the contorted fish-out-of-water version of the shark, or if I should eventually draw something that showed the shark in a more natural position for the guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The “alpha racetracks” like this one at Oak Ridge separated fissionable U-235 from natural uranium at a high volume, though not enough to build more than a single bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It happened almost suddenly, but with such a natural flow that Brian didn’t notice it for a short time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now a natural question is why it took so long for anyone to find a moon in our own solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The study showed that the organic fruits and vegetables contained higher levels of vitamin C. They also had a wider range of natural chemicals called polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The old guard’s natural radiation sources, the thimblefuls of radium and clumps of radium-beryllium they used to make the discoveries that transformed physics—nuclear disintegration, the neutron, and artificial radioactivity—had had their day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her natural prey, the waterbirds, still did not interest her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before taking off, he was informed that the first microscopic quantity of U-235 had been separated from natural uranium in the thirty-seven-inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Horses. They hate horses—natural enemies, or something. I wish Arion was here!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was midafternoon, so most of the lights in the house were off; the room was filled with shadows and the soft glow of natural sunlight. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Underground methods were by now beginning to seem quite natural to me," she recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If there are no flats or sharps listed after the clef symbol, then the key signature is "all notes are natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The girl child was waiting for them, standing on one end of a natural bridge above a yawning chasm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was natural therefore to claim that, since a clock models the heavens, the heavens are like a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It overtakes you literally by degrees as your body temperature falls and your natural responses grow sluggish and disordered. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Bah. He was a god. He fell in love with your mother because she was a natural warrior. She was like me—strong, brave, good, beautiful.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheaded girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had any on Saturday, either, and the apartment, which never got much natural light, was dark and unwelcoming. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And some members of Parliament would fuss like wet hens. No, I predict a cold winter will dispatch most of them in a natural way.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don’t believe that. It’ll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beauty Base Zero turns out to be what a person would look like if they stepped out of bed looking flawless but natural. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It looks very natural there, and as soon as the mosses take hold, it will look even more so. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience did make me a little more confident of my ability to defend myself, though, and the natural night noises disturbed me less. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, like it was the most natural thing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the inhabitants of East Durham, racism flourished, a part of the environment, as natural and as unquestioned as rain in the spring or hunger pangs at night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it is natural for us to think that there was much that was ‘new’ before 1492. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I tripped over a rock and fell—I wasn’t just slower than Hassan but clumsier too; I’d always envied his natural athleticism. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had emerged—loosely speaking—because an ancestral antelope had produced a long-necked variant that had been progressively selected by a natural force, such as a famine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remember how when I was a child we responded to the natural dislike of the stranger. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit’s parents seemed more worried about Ginny’s safety than her own mother, but Armpit had a lot to do with that since his natural response was to argue with anything they said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had kissed me too, a natural business, comforting and quiet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Peale had opened a natural history museum in his house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was an extension of the name that seemed natural. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father said Lumumba’s party won thirty-five of a hundredy-some-odd seats in the new parliament, mainly because of his natural animal magnetism. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. He is most definitely not part of our family. He is a malicious manifestation from outside of our natural realm.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They both wore the same uniform, but on Chris somehow it fit better, seemed more natural. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"They should create a natural phenomenon . . ." This had better stop right here, I thought. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in sixth grade, my mom bought me all these books about puberty and adolescence, so I would appreciate what a “beautiful” and “natural” and “miraculous” transformation I was going through. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Telling stories seemed a natural, inevitable process, like clearing the throat. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To explain the intersection of genetics, natural selection, and evolution in formal terms, Dobzhansky resurrected two important words—genotype and phenotype. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“This place is rich with natural resources. And The Corporation is working hard to bring those comforts to America, where they belong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The gel blacks out any natural daylight in the front, but some light still slips through the shutters in the kitchen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That’s why Darwin, in his great book On the Origin of Species, didn’t start with an account of natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By prison standards, this was palatial, but the rooms were damp and musty and received very little natural light. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he said, “People got to be meat-eaters sometimes, though. It’s the natural way. And that means killing things.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Caesar, this is a natural place to segue into all the ways we did get hurt in the arena, from burns, to stings, to wounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

If not, pour yourself a glass, take it easy, and say what sounds most natural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as a natural scientist and a mathematician, the mature Eratosthenes represented the anti-Ariston. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I don't see why the hell they can't talk in their natural voice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

On her eighth birthday, Ethel’s father forbid her to play with Jasmine so as not to pervert the natural state of relations between the races. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Pascal’s explanation is a mechanical explanation, and its oddity is that it extends the scope of mechanical explanations from the artificial world of levers and pulleys to the natural world of gases and liquids. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lyell had argued that the current landscape of the earth was the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millions of years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Conversely, all that forest means that there is no native grassland or natural pasture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forager societies were hardly immune to natural disasters, and suffered from periods of want and hunger, but they were usually able to deal with such calamities more easily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Farmer’s favorite Virchow quotes was “The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural for a man to want his son to succeed,” Adam went on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wes loved football, and his athletic frame made him a natural. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They are created from the most ‘natural’ ratios, even taking into account the distorting fix of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe there’s ever been such a clever student at my Institute as you. You have a shrewd, strong mind. I saw this at once. And you are a natural leader.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And so it seemed natural enough, after a while, that the girls would help more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural New England taciturnity reaches its glorious perfection at breakfast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gods in their natural state are about twenty feet tall, so I could just reach the edge of the seat if I stretched my arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Natural, of course, natural, after what you’ve been through. Especially what happened at the Ministry...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was natural to think of the solar system as much more compact and local. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be difficult to say: I could not then distinctly say it to myself; yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it was more than the natural swell of parental pride that stirred inside him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Just Renee seemed to be a natural take-charge person—she was leading the way, even though she had no idea what they were supposed to be looking for. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Red, this can't be you—” With my natural kinky red hair now close-cropped, in place of the old long-haired, lye-cooked conk they had always known on my head, I know I looked much different. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was right, it didn’t feel natural at all, because part of me wanted to say the name of the color, and part of me wanted to say what was written. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Elizabeth met them at the door with her dead pet, and tears in her eyes, it was only natural that somebody should think of a funeral. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you smell any natural gas odor in there?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some judges seemed to want to get as close to life expectancy or natural death as possible before they would create release opportunities for child offenders. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the Greek myth of Prometheus the gift of fire forever severs humankind from the natural world—the burning torch is the icon of the constructed and artificial. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the following morning its natural instincts to mix with a flock and to talk were beginning to return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meme swallowed her blush, absorbed her tribulation, and even managed a natural smile as she asked him the favor of leaving it on the railing because her hands were dirty from the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The only answer that I can give to this problem is based on Darwin’s principle of natural selection. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Death by fire is the only natural death left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I glance there, too, from time to time, because it is natural that I am eager for my break to arrive, especially as today has been another no-show day, in terms of customers. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

To their colleagues, Rutherford and Lawrence would be known as “the two Ernests,” and their work would bookend an epochal quest for knowledge of the natural world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some inventions arose straightforwardly from a handling of natural raw materials. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The South Gut was a little ditch of water, one of many that crisscrossed Rass, and a natural garbage dump. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that year, he schemed a perfect way out: he applied for a job to teach mathematics, natural sciences, and elementary Greek at the Znaim High School. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is natural to describe key events in terms of the work of individuals who made a mark in science—Copernicus, Vesalius, Darwin, Wallace and the rest. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Allen, a natural comedian, was so funny making this sound with his eyes bugging out that I laughed despite myself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your own mother and father are full of this natural love for you. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now repeat after me, and do try to sound natural. Please say, ‘No, Mom, stay where you are.’ Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I wasn’t part of the natural order of things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In his natural haunts a sailor has no face and certainly no plans beyond getting drunk and maybe in jail for fighting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it glowed just as bright, it felt more natural. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And they actually seemed natural around each other. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My natural urge was to tell him to butt out. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural to want to know about your father.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But then one weekend, our moms took us to the planetarium at the natural history museum—and that’s when I got sucked into it, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

While she didn’t care much for the Night Zoo’s shows, Jabir took them in stride, a natural performer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"How else could they make it look a natural death?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted the sound effects to be natural so the colonel in the next stall would suspect nothing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that easy. We’re not dying from natural causes. How can we try to live knowing some truck might run us down when we’re crossing the street?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Comparing this scale to the natural minor scale makes it easy to see why the dorian mode sounds minor; only one note is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This one seemed to be a natural crevice slicing through slick, smooth stone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

At every Gregarious Games press conference, Morrow grinned infectiously from behind his unruly beard and wire-rimmed spectacles, using his natural gift for hype and hyperbole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Alice’s castle,” I say, clambering up to a ledge where a stone wall with stones placed one on two, two on one, protects a natural cave from rain and wind. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There is reason to hope the new microbial insecticide will eliminate both the tortricids and the borers and that it will do so without upsetting natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But collections also provided more serious scholars with specimens that helped them formulate theories on the natural order of life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Eva, who was never one to hide the faults of her children, mentioned what she thought she’d seen to a few friends, they said it was natural. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘It isn’t natural, and trouble will come of it!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Being trapped in a tiny cage with six other birds goes against every natural instinct of a chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This being my natural attitude, I don’t know what made me turn sharply south and cross a state line to take a look at Yellowstone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The existence of such elites goes against the most fundamental principles of natural selection, since these dominant members of society willingly give up procreation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney moved into the firelight, and they saw that she was very thin; her large glasses magnified her eyes to several times their natural size, and she was draped in a gauzy spangled shawl. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It would be much more commendable to be somebody else’s enemy,” said the gentleman; “far more natural.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

This was quite natural since the two were cousins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed only natural to him that such a place would have formed his principled fiancée, who always strove for perfection, and he gladly followed her back to Shaker Heights after graduation. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Then you're very talented. You are a natural. It's hard to believe." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Webb twins were timid, weakly little fellows, natural butts for any bullies. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always say, Mrs. Montague, that you’re only young once. Those young people are enjoying themselves, and it’s only natural for the young.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The belief that terrestrial processes were gradual had been elemental in natural history since the time of Lyell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural to feel some curiosity about these things... . Wizards of a certain caliber have always been drawn to that aspect of magic...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did have many of the qualities of the Star Wars hero, a kind of wholesome purity that seemed too good to be true but was so natural as to make him appear almost delicate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was it not seen in uranium in its natural state? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As strange as it seemed, the word felt natural on his lips, like he was already morphing into a Glader. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’m too close to the ceiling, and it’s not natural. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I dared to put off the mendicant—to resume my natural manner and character. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Bull remained unhurried, gliding around the court with the definitive moves of the natural. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get all twelve pitches using only the seven note names, we allow any of these notes to be sharp, flat, or natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He joked that it had “all natural air-conditioning.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there are many other reasons for natural objects to give off radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its founding tenets were borrowed from Darwin—but they grafted the logic of natural selection onto human societies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Recognizing that they had a strong ally in nature, they devised a program that makes maximum use of natural controls and minimum use of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s a rare, natural occurrence, only happens once a century.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Changing the venue was also an attempt to crush our spirits by separating us from our natural supporters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blacks of their eyes seemed almost natural, not like they were possessed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was hinting here, in print, about the transmutation of species, about how new species were created, by adapting to their surroundings, by the means of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Anorak's Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bishop Jansen, the founder of the sect, had declared that science was sinful; curiosity about the natural world was akin to lust. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

How did I stake my claim on the natural world? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The conclusions announced by Mr. Darwin are such as, if established, would cause a complete revolution in the fundamental doctrines of natural history,” one reviewer wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Her insolent behavior contradicts her quiz scores. I don’t understand her motivations, and when I don’t understand something, Reynard, it is natural that I don’t trust it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.12: The modern symbols for sharp, natural, and flat evolved from medieval notation indicating what type of B should be used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My dad’s tears poured out of him, like it was as natural as air. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying it’s not natural, that you shouldn’t be ... well, lowering yourself.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.1: Here are the first sixteen pitches in a harmonic series that starts on a C natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Everything about being with David feels natural, like the crooked, happy smile he’s wearing right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It looked nice and natural that way and she was glad she had got it for him rather than the nickel pop-gun she had first thought of buying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armed with an insatiable desire to succeed—and aided by his natural gifts, which included a deeply resonant voice—he made his dream come true soon after finishing up at Bard College in 1971. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, I hate the idea of things being sold—uprooted from their natural homes, whisked off to some closet that’s in God- knows-what state of disorder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"He's sure as hell not going to Ares 4. Unless he's going around some natural obstacle." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can even paint moving illusions now, which are tricky because you have to concentrate so hard to make the movements look natural. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“But, he knew you’d marry some day. How could a thing as natural as that be a rejection?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I found one such TV dinner that included thirty-one ingredients, from guar and xanthan gum to “natural grill flavor.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merlyn looked younger every year—which was only natural, because he was. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the natural world seems incredibly complex, Herschel acknowledged. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Almost like it comes sort of natural to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something not natural about it all—something like an ugly joke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was as though I was continuously reacting to the threat of some natural force whose hostile behavior could not be predicted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This definition at least eliminates the confusion of treating as works of art such natural phenomena as flowers, seashells, or sunsets. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is hunting for her though, and while hunting a gun is as natural a companion as Victory. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made no attempt to place his insects in natural settings, however. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The stocking cap, the turtle- neck, the scarf around my face, the gloves, it all looks natural. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s like a god—impervious to cold, famine, disease, natural and man-made disasters. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier Stone Age people, it seems, were content to collect pebbles in whose natural shape they saw something that rendered them “magic.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bitter upland plains, the purple wastes of sage, the wild, swift antelope, and the grouse are then a natural system in perfect balance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As you would expect from a great salesman, he has a kind of natural exuberance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a natural entertainer with a lovely voice and a fine ear. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that man can produce little blue fire women and that woman there melt into a pillar, how natural if normal Martians think we produce our rocket ship with our minds.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked natural at first, tender and friendly, but his hand stayed there. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next natural step in the minds of many in the Soviet Union was to put the first woman in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like any minor scale, dorian minor may start on any note, but like dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘Like I said, I believe Orion is tracking you, not the Athena Parthenos. He seems especially good at sensing the presence of female demigods. I guess you’d say that we’re his natural prey.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophy drew a sharp distinction between the natural and the artificial: understanding one provided no basis for understanding the other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And it was natural that he, after all, became the first one to join Shadrack—Tar Baby and the deweys—on National Suicide Day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any “naturals,” musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The natural history of her life, sketched out, because nothing means as much until it has vanished. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Things are as they are not because of any sort of natural order or necessity, but because God chose to make them so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The natural world is so adaptable,” she said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are quite in the right; it was most natural to pay your visit, then”— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It is larger, but still rustic and natural, overgrown with landscape, banks of wild white roses tangling across the porch roof. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They were very well dressed, too well dressed to be eating pork out of a box, but on that warm September day it seemed natural, a perfect addition to the mellowness that pervaded the park. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young brothers Bach, though, did not have the kind of natural genius required to lead a new movement out of its initial rebellious stage into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I think the mistake was very natural under the circumstances,” said Frank quickly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s taken some time, but I’ve gotten used to the sound from my running foot and the way it’s paired with the quieter swish of my natural foot—whing, whoosh, whing, whoosh. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

For this to work, she would have to sound convincing, but natural. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then there came a kind of natural end to her lecture, and we all gave a sigh, thanked her and went out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a small gap between her teeth and faded pockmarks on her chin, yet her eyes were beautiful, with thick, flaring brows and liquid flourishes that extended beyond the natural width of the lids. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thus Gilbert made magnetic experiments relevant to a well-established branch of natural knowledge, astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was young, almost an adolescent, with no sign of timidity and with a natural pleasant manner that had not shown itself until then. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The distinction between the two “races” of flies by virtue of a single chromosomal inversion was the most dramatic example of genetic variation that any geneticist had ever seen in a natural population. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No natural sister should love a stranger more than a brother, I thought, and what sort of daughter prefers a teacher to her own father? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Windstorms, lightning fires, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and other natural calamities knock down trees and open up the forest, or prevent open country from turning into forestland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The museum, in London’s Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But Emma was worth it; so, as his daughter Henrietta wrote much later, he “made up his mind to give up all his natural taste for tidiness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the spot in front of the main verb is often the most natural resting place for an adverb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then there were no letters, but that was natural; he was at sea. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And yet for me, the mystery of a happening has no magic anymore, no natural draw. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ida asked, as if it was the most natural question in the world. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Awkwardness was such a natural thing for me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each can feel itself the natural rulers of all Earth, and each has a history of humiliation by the North, for which it can be human enough to wish a senseless revenge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Even on the Earth, even in our own century, bizarre natural events have occurred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This natural limit shows up again and again in simple tests. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

To learn music using the Suzuki approach, the child must replicate the steps of language learning by listening to excellent recordings so that beautiful music becomes part of their natural environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Why would you choose to call the note E sharp instead of F natural? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But he is not comfortable or natural here—every muscle in his arm stands out. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But what we observed and experienced in the natural world from afar was an aggregation of dots: pixels merging to form a seamless picture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You want to protect those of your own species. It’s a natural instinct.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the observations he made—on himself, his children, the animals and plants around him—were in service to his theory of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors to the great hall were thrown open, and a sextet of natural trumpets blared as the king walked out upon the dais. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Yes, some of the children were mean but it seemed a natural child-meanness and not a campaign. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few, finding themselves in places with few or none of their natural enemies, look around with the hopeful incredulity of juvenile delinquents who discover the mall’s security cameras are broken—and wreak havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s natural sometimes to confuse a group of individuals with some ideal composite individual. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus we are not dealing with a transformation reflected in a single pair of terms—‘natural philosophy’, which, in the nineteenth century, became ‘science’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He leaned over and kissed her forehead, like it was the most natural thing to do. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because agricultural fields are less diverse than natural ecosystems, they cannot perform all their functions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The undertaker had put rouge and lipstick on his face to make him look natural. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. You guys have been two peas in a pod for so long. Maybe Jack decided he needs to have some friends who are boys. It’s natural for someone Jack’s age.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He spoke of her duty, her obligation, her natural love for her parents. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, if we destroy too much of the natural world, we shall be depriving those who live after us of much beauty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had the natural arrogance of someone for whom everything came easily. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s not natural, I know, to keep an animal so quiet. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The presumption has been, either that thinking comes naturally, or that the required intellectual tools for thinking about natural science had all been developed by the ancient Greeks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their natural behavior was held in abeyance. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Always remember, though, that it is the actual distance in half steps between the notes that determines the type of interval, not whether the notes are written as natural, sharp, or double-sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Their bullets, their little tubes of metal that fly up and down the block...that's nothing natural. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Heavy, bulky, and fragile, with banks of switches carefully wired together, Purple was not a natural traveler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mountains proved a natural border of sorts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a natural minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The desire to gain possessions is truly a very natural and normal thing, and when those men gain possessions who are able to do so, they will always be praised and not criticized. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even as geneticists celebrated the synthesis of heredity, evolution, and natural selection, the material nature of the gene remained an unsolved puzzle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias took a group of Redwall mice to instruct in the use of the quarter staff—he had discovered in himself a natural skill with the long ash pole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All three dwell on the pain of love, embodied poetically in the natural world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a natural at basketball like Rob, but he tried hard and hated for Rob to outscore him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the scales above are natural minor scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But now the natural disaster is being Muslim. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"I'm pretty sure my mom was holding back. I think she thinks this is the natural look." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All the villagers cared about was the identity of their murderer — for plainly, three apparently healthy people did not all drop dead of natural causes on the same night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I believe Boots to be a natural ambassador,” said Vikus, smiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Spanish flu of 1918 had raged through the continent, killing nearly 20 million men and women worldwide and ranking among the deadliest natural disasters in history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If she made her daughter stick to the natural, overgrown eyebrow look, then family members would whisper about it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although he sometimes felt the temptation and although Nigromanta herself might have seemed to him as the natural culmination of a shared nostalgia, he did not go to bed with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We cook cleanly and efficiently with natural gas, but we are running short of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a natural mistrust of the inhabitants of other parts of the Shire; and also he was not disposed to be quick friends with anyone who had beaten his master, however long ago. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She says I don’t look like I’m marching in step anymore so it’s much more natural AND she says that shows a lot of finesse. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are, in fact, just as natural as eating and drinking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You seek out the traditional, the natural and the cosmopolitan. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the relief had settled in, after people remembered how to go about their lives without the pressing fear of crime, there arose a natural question: just where did all those criminals go? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Institute conducts research into ways to protect soldiers against biological weapons and natural infectious diseases. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a time when most scholars were trying to separate the natural world into categories, Maria insisted on finding connections—between life stages, between insect and plant, between art and science. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The rest of her body was its natural shade—more the color of fawn than coal. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Nature” was God’s creation—and to be safely consistent with Christian doctrine, natural historians had to tell the story of nature in terms of Genesis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But that’s not natural,” he said, sniffing the strange, strong smells of tar and oil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I wish I’d been able to keep them open, but it was a natural reaction and I couldn’t stop myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When natural disasters had caused food shortages, Chairman Mao had urged us all to produce food. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her tight curls were less than an inch long and jet black, except for a thin streak of natural gray framing her face like a headband. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So it was natural that Mia, too, would find a passion of her own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Random House Dictionary: “Nothing in the history of the infinitive in English ... supports the so-called rule, and in many sentences ... the only natural place for the modifying adverb is between to and the verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"A dragon is fear of the natural world," Freak says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bearded lady taught her to play the mandolin, and the snake charmer said she was a natural. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even taken his journal, which would later become prized for its unrivaled accounts of the Zamani Region’s natural history. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A virus does not generally kill its natural host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called it “descent with modification,” and he used the term “natural selection” for the mechanism of change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned algebra, which felt as natural to his mind as air to his lungs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But she was quick and athletic, and a natural leader, and soon found herself enjoying it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They stood shoulder to shoulder, trying to look casual, like it was completely natural for two teenaged guys to hang around Raphael’s tomb. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It looks as though we really are going to live a natural life again at last, doesn’t it?” said Bigwig, as they browsed their way along the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘In disputes about natural phenomena,’ wrote Galileo, ‘one must not begin with the authority of scriptural passages, but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Miss Destiny, the rat crop of New York practically supports our wild raptors now that we’ve wiped out most of their natural food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

How happy they seemed to have found this excuse, to let their natural friendliness out. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day she laid the affair before Mr. Brocklehurst, who said that Mrs. Reed must be written to, as she was my natural guardian. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had not as yet eaten his breakfast as far as Peggy was concerned, and his coming into the kitchen would be thought natural. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fairies had not operated in natural light for centuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn’t come natural to me until I became a Christian. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, as is natural in these situations, they fell in love. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we stand there in silence, but for the first time the silence that lingers between us feels a little more natural. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the food chain that feeds most Americans is anything but natural. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“My first real collecting as a student of natural history was done in Egypt on this journey,” Roosevelt recalled. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Calling her here might kill her, or turn her back to her natural state as a fierce monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn't tell what it was, or even if it was natural or man-made. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The natural rhythms inherent in rhyming can become the basis for exploration, improvisation, vocalizations, and instrumental creativity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He knew all the natural harbors, the swiftest currents, how to avoid a squall even when it seemed intent on destroying him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Later, when I discovered sailing, it was completely natural that I would sail on the Pacific by myself. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nathan had a feeling that whatever had done this wasn’t natural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was a natural law of athletics that there must be whispering before a game and nothing else. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was hard to think. It was hard not to let off steam. It was hard not to overindulge in all the natural activities of life.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Their luck would hold indefinitely, and they would carry on their intrigue, just like this, for the remainder of their natural lives. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural for a woman to put on a little weight after she’s had a baby,” said Sissy with a straight face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Darwin—gentleman biologist, and soon to be England’s most lauded natural historian—Wallace had been born to a middle-class family in Monmouthshire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In a world of atoms and the void all natural processes result from the ways in which atoms jostle together. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The question struck me as strange, but he spoke in a tone that said it would be natural if I did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nathan knew that this sadness, this feeling of worthlessness, wasn’t natural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They say: It’s just not natural that he makes his girl use a hammer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Harriet thought that it would be perfectly natural and understandable if this son should write to his foster father, reporting about his health and inquiring about the family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bennie had spent every year of the decade that Sierra had known her obsessed with one branch of the natural sciences or another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The head voice is lighter, more tension-free, and more natural and therefore more beautiful sounding. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sheed’s speed was a natural gift, one he hoped to use as a Fry Flamingo one day. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He asked me if he could say that that day I had held back my natural feelings. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She spent some minutes making adjustments in order to achieve a natural chaotic look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He called his idea “modification by natural selection.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: In fact, technically I’m endangering our entire operation . . . which is not... well, I’m not a natural risk-taker as you know. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

They possessed good natural climbing ability, and that weasel—what was his name? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

First of all, there is a large body of what might be termed “nontechnology,” impossible to measure in terms of its capacity to alter either the natural course of disease or its eventual outcome. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane’s attractions. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The program reduces pollution and conserves natural resources. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was late at night when the city of Rio de Janeiro first came into view, and the ship finally passed the famed Sugar Loaf peak, which marked the entrance into Rio’s calm natural harbor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Foods that humans cannot digest in their natural forms—such as wheat, rice and potatoes—became staples of our diet thanks to cooking. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces, a kind of display, and one that like all displays is not fully under the control of its authors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If Maman were here, she would tell me to pluck flower petals to help me create perfect natural shades, and ignore Du Barry's extensive color guides. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“School,” I say, trying to sound natural, trying to sound like my sudden interest in the old-school indie rock is what all the brown girls are doing these days. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin’s gift was natural history—the reconstruction of history by observing nature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, they ran into difficulty finding human cases of Ebola—they were not able to discover the virus in a natural host or in people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about how often Chris had been cited as a natural leader. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing natural about that hot dog.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that she and her cousins would be fast friends. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Those rabbits we left—Cowslip and the rest—a lot of the things they did weren’t natural to rabbits—pushing stones into the earth and carrying food underground and Frith knows what.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the evil was left, like a twisted natural force. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was natural, too, that the divine power which brought forth the grain should be thought of as a goddess, not a god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a natural notion and can still be encountered, although it does not account for the invisibility of objects in a darkened room. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romero never made any contortions, always it was straight and pure and natural in line. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hitting another person with my fists never seemed natural to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you ever text and drive, you’ll never drive any car again for the rest of your natural life,” Linda told him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The natural dominance of the master again asserted itself without pretension,” wrote Van Brunt, “and we once more became his willing and happy pupils.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The friars who commissioned his work had, as followers of St Francis, a love of the natural world, and thus a desire for a new realism in art. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The air was fetid; it brought him no more than a tantalizing whiff of anything natural and good. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

That was what had felt natural, and we’d got in like that without thinking about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had decided to be self-sufficient; it seemed the safest thing to be now, and the natural way for them to live. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We step off the elevator, and a man with an impressive double pretzel-loop on top of his head points at us, like we’re some sort of exhibit at the museum of natural history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was natural that she would want the miracle doctor’s daughter at the wedding of this son’s youngest daughter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swept past her husband and with elaborate gestures that seemed natural on her, she grasped Mrs. Grantham’s hand and introduced herself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes said he understood, but that he had no choice but to see things through to their natural end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But, as Darwin and Wallace showed, there is another way, equally appealing, equally human, and far more compelling: natural selection, which makes the music of life more beautiful as the aeons pass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loring had a vulnerable, rubicund face with eyebrows arched into constant and natural inquisitiveness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My natural talent, I think, is in being fine—no matter what is actually going on inside me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had a natural eye for choreography, and everything he said sort of clicked for her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed the natural thing, to bring this voice from the past into a moment so saturated with the past already, even if the voice was mixed with my own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The island was full of dangers, both natural and magical. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your mama is always okay, Moss. She’s in her natural element in there.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They disavowed communism in ail its forms and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups” or “aliens” who had no natural place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Death by scythe is not a natural death. We Tonists do not acknowledge it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Churchill was not a “natural orator” any more than Cicero was. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The exhaust whistle, coupled with the natural engine noises, precluded the necessity of Mister Scales’ giving any further notice about the car’s arrival at its destination. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had subdued her natural wish to change into something that could bite and threaten, and remained a robin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una’s death breached his battlements. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It would have been easier if Eduardo had come up to be a natural buffer for me, a screen, and perhaps also to provide the pretext by which I might depart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To talk about those regularities that appear in the natural world as ‘laws’ is to speak metaphorically: this was as obvious in the first century and the seventeenth as it is now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like the earlier system, Jim Crow seemed “natural,” and it became difficult to remember that alternative paths were not only available at one time, but nearly embraced. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other thing about Kaitlyn, I guess, was that it could never again feel natural to talk to her. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bacon, for example, who is of course familiar with the use of the word ‘evidence’ in a legal context, never employs it when discussing natural philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a forest, or wood—any kind of natural area—all the different kinds of plants and animals make up a whole, wonderful, complex pattern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A natural leader, Hans Scholl rose to command a squad of 150 Hitler Youth, earning the rank of Fähnleinführer, a leader of a patrol that has its own flag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s perfectly natural to split the parts of a verb like have gone by putting an adverb between them: The goombahs have finally gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then he added, gruffly, “It’s been quite a time since we had a natural, growing child in the house ..His voice trailed off. “ Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Academy was a natural history museum full of dinosaur bones and taxidermy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I seemed to have a knack for it above and beyond my natural penchant for absorbing knowledge, so there was never too long a wait. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Both exhibit regularities, implying that they are not implacable forces but natural systems that can be understood and controlled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plague and drought were as “natural” as springtime; If milk could curdle, God knows robins could fall. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The hogs knew they’d found a natural spot for making a fighting stand, and they didn’t aim to leave it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We re three powerful half-bloods. Our presence should confuse him. Mingle. Act natural. Do some dancing. But keep an eye on those kids.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The cricket was such a natural musician that he not only chirped the tune—in a few minutes he was making up variations and spinning them out without ever losing the rhythm of the waltz. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above the arch was a natural stone ledge, about ten feet deep. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that the usual sources of her knowledge were natural ones. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a larger sense, it means that the aids virus is a natural survivor of changes in ecosystems. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, he helped me back to the center of the raft, saying, “Tis mos’ natural for you to do dis. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been found that animals, both wild herbivores and livestock, are sometimes strangely attracted to a plant that has been sprayed, even though it is not one of their natural foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One very useful function of natural plant communities — now pretty generally stigmatized as “weeds” — is to serve as an indicator of the condition of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. There’s a natural sort of connection with the beehive, but not with the other two.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fact that the insecticide was applied in very low concentrations is meaningless, as its explosive progress through the natural food chain in the lake demonstrates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Holmes attempted, for example, to sell investors a machine that turned water into natural gas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That is only natural, just as it is natural for a man whose life function is the making of money to make money out of a war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I usually just wear it out and natural. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I found a very stable-looking rock on the fringe of one of the largest pools and sat there cautiously, spellbound by the natural aquarium below me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It was natural! You wanted to see them again. What’s wrong with that?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could not wait and hope, praying that my grief-stricken body would resume its natural courses. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Insects have many natural enemies — not only microbes of many kinds but other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even now it does not feel a wholly natural act so much as it feels like ritual. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His first natural distaste for being questioned by “foreigners” had evaporated. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hot Pot was a natural sulfur spring in the desert north of town, surrounded by craggy rocks and quicksand. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, his evidence was based on alchemy–natural, spontaneous, scientifically credible, and wholly non-occult, but alchemy nonetheless. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That probably came from the “natural chicken flavor” mentioned on the box. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They were not a natural phenomenon, but they were natural to us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Samuel, do you think why you want to go? Is it your natural incurable nosiness? Is it your black inability to mind your own business?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The effective methods there involved the bringing into play of natural forces of control which have the multiple advantages of permanence and environmental safety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

One thing trees and crows have in common—in fact, one thing all the natural world has in common—is the rule that we’re not supposed to talk to people. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those who find an answer to all problems in spraying also overlook a matter of great scientific importance — the need to preserve some natural plant communities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to be nervous about! So it’s a big game. But in the grand scheme of things, in a world rife with famine, disease, war, natural disasters, and crime, is a game all that important?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In effect, the natural processes of differential survival and reproduction do the selecting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers followed the natural wave of his hair, tracing the strands down around his ear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I know it won’t sound natural to you,” she said, “but you need to work to get it out. It’s important.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

‘But since these, astronomy and natural philosophy in general have, for so little time, been extraordinarily advanced...Natural Philosophy is therefore but young.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He spoke as though this was the most natural and self-evident and inevitable thing we could be doing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural, I suppose,” said Colonel Julyan, “for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aggressive behavior, Nina Murray said, is natural to the species. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In such a nonstop game he also had the natural advantage of a flow of energy which I never saw interrupted. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes to the cabinet and gets my favorite mug, the green one with the black owl staring at you from the natural history museum. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of all our natural resources water has become the most precious. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s the terrain where two different ecosystems meet. In an ecotone, the landscape will contain elements of the two different ecosystems. It’s like a natural borderlands.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sky was a dull slab of gray—not the natural pale light of morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was a leathery old girl with chestnut hair of fine natural wave which was now fanned out over the pillow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge declared that he was sentencing them to the penitentiary for the “period of your natural lives.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Perhaps nothing in natural history has been at the center of fiercer and more enduring hatreds than the line of ancient beasts known as dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Next, Steve fit a wig of long, dark brown hair over Liddy’s head and snipped the edges to make it look natural. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His project focused on solving environment problems, notably waste, by using a natural resource: earthworms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Above all, he has no conception of a decisive transition in the natural sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Madison, and to an even greater extent Jefferson, seemed to think that economic policy consisted of getting out of the way to allow the natural laws of economic recovery and growth to proceed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain’s curiosity was natural and friendly, but there was a reserve in it, an unexpected caution. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shop itself is tucked back farther from the street than the shops next to it, so it already has more natural cover. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was natural that the Athenians should have such a hero because they valued thought and ideas as no other part of the country did. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Ireland, however, has no natural deposits of obsidian. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, like a plant uprooted from its natural habitat, Jagu wilted and fell apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

David Nelson died of natural causes a year after we won relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s surrounded by bowls of coarse white sugar and lumps of natural brown sugar, and various cookies, fruits, and sweets arranged on plates. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He wanted to go up there, where instinct told him death awaited—not his own, but his natural enemies’. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many people were scandalized—some still are—at both ideas, evolution and natural selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some form of natural anesthetic injected through channels in the beast’s tusks. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was natural that she should cut a poor figure in the Iliad, where the battle of heroes is the theme. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

No natural light, of course, but that was a small price to pay for privacy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Alone in his study, he was committed to his theory of natural selection, the theory that would leave God out of creation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mercury has no natural tendency to stand up in a column, so there is no final cause at work here. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who wore a swim cap to help protect my natural hair from the chlorine. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ad hoc village that would serve as our home for the next six weeks sat at the head of a natural amphitheater delineated by forbidding mountain walls. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

To go into it, I’ve always thought, would only cause embarrassment for all of us, a sudden need to be elsewhere, which is the natural response to a confession. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most good-looking girls made me nervous, but being with Naomi seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Smith and Pollard had unearthed in him, in Smith’s words, “more natural inclination to run than any horse I have ever seen.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tinkering came about as natural as school for me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

And what happened to genes upon natural selection? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is nothing intrinsically best about our particular configuration of fingers, which we ordinarily think of as so natural and inevitable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle used some natural ingredients her grandmother had taught her about. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I apologize for interrupting your schedule,” Hideo says, as if my answer were the most natural thing in the world, “but are you willing to skip work today and come to Tokyo?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They told Mother they didn’t think it was natural, and that it made them nervous the way we tiptoed and whispered. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, all chords that have only D naturals, F sharps, and A naturals, are considered D major chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For example, he is a natural athlete, but doesn’t go around talking sports all the time or thinking it is the end of the world if his team doesn’t win. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I sang, the words felt more natural coming out of my mouth. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Today in class he announced we’d continue working with magnets—apparently otherwise known as “natural magic!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What held the column of water together was a natural force, the resistance to the creation of a vacuum, and this force was a major factor in understanding the strength of materials. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The boy’s a natural. I’ve never seen anything like it. Was that your first time on a broomstick, Potter?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Sociological research has shown that the maximum ‘natural’ size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only rarely did he allow an undisguised racist remark to slip through, like the time he referred to “the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if you coupled the genesis of spontaneous mutants—the giant-leaved Oenothera, say—with natural selection, then Darwin’s relentless engine was automatically set in motion. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, it’s natural to bury your grandmother. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed the most natural thing, the only thing, to do. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem natural for a little girl to be so interested in animals. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

So when we talk about nature’s laws we can be talking about laws governing human behaviour or laws governing nature—‘natural law’ and ‘laws of nature’, as we now say. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first I was naive, and assumed that brothers and sisters were natural allies, instant companions. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But in informal writing and conversation, if no one's likely to mistake your meaning it's fine to put only where it seems most natural—usually in front of the verb: I’m only saying this once. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are cases on record where natural parasitism has kept the budworm under control more effectively than spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The starkness of the room seemed to heighten the natural warmth of the occasion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have two natural gaits—the gentle, lolloping forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And might I guess that you are looking for reasons that aren’t...natural?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The word essays has come to seem normal and natural to us—students write essays all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Neither wished to live one more day without finding out the truth, and they believed they were the legitimate and natural ones to do so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

By my second year, it was natural for me to spend a typical day mediating between Frederick Douglass’s integration into America and Martin Delany’s escape into nationalism. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our parents would never have permitted us to be alone like this, but it felt natural to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason, this one had enormous natural fangs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be used to the way they look in their natural state. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He might be killed in an accident, or he could die shortly of natural causes, but it would be foolish to count on such an eventuality. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In light of Hurd’s portrait, Revere’s work as a silversmith hardly explains these attributes and actions, natural as they seem. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nature, whether natural or not, unleashes its fury with a vengeance as we finally sail into the churning winds of the stalled storm front. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Theresa and Helen and Ralph slipped from tongue to tongue like turtles taking to land, taking to sea; though one remained their more natural element, both had become essential. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was natural to think that space and time went on forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Without its natural enemies the plant grew so fast that southerners joked they had to close their windows at night to keep it out. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For me to try to get a girl would have upset the natural order of things. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"I think it's very natural too," said the mare. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No method, no new discovery, can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I can tease out this 'secret’ natural relationship between a note and its higher self by illustrating the magic of musical pitch. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

These spirits inhabited natural objects, like rivers and mountains, including celestial bodies, like the sun and moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The 500s room was like a miniature museum of natural history. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The good news, according to the board, was that the National Park Service hoped that some of the trees would stage a natural recovery over time. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It is time," Helms pontificated in a 1960s TV editorial, “to face, honestly and sincerely, the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the Children’s Television Workshop was founded in the late 1960s, Palmer was a natural recruit. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a natural choice; the waxing and waning of the moon in the heavens was hard to overlook, and it offered a convenient way of marking periodic cycles of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To be here, among people who had gone abroad, was natural for him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So he had noticedl To her pride, she had proved to be a natural sailor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not a penal statute. It cannot be said, as contended, that the act divides a natural class of persons into two.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If the Beni becomes a reserve for the "natural," they ask, what international organization would let them continue setting the plains afire? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can hear the occasional hoot or howl, my first clue that I'll be competing with natural predators for the rabbits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are two characteristic forms that natural philosophy takes in the Middle Ages: one is the commentary on Aristotle; the other is the collection of quaestiones, of problems to which there is no agreed solution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We cite this vignette as an example of possible recidivism; it demonstrates not only the confusion but also the fractious and insubordinate natural inclination of the African subject. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a natural wall from behind which he could look at them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a temperate zone it’s the most natural thing in the world, right as rain, to grow fields of waving grain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the stadium, most were being clad with natural stone, all of it German—more limestone from Franconia, basalt from the Eifel hills, granite and marble from Silesia, travertine from Thuringia, porphyry from Saxony. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell her that the black dye she uses is not very natural looking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the economy of nature the natural vegetation has its essential place. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had come out from Pennsylvania three years earlier to study at McKendree College, where an uncle was professor of natural philosophy, a subject that later generations would call physics. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Obie was certain of one thing as if it was a natural law, like gravity—Renault wasn’t going to sell the chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just upstream from where Davis Creek flows into Lake Powell, a natural ramp zigzags down from the canyon's west rim. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural world is incomplete without the human touch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But moving wasn’t a good idea because every time I flipped and flapped on the pavement, with every natural jerk, the cuffs seemed to tighten, and worse, I caught another blow. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

To simplify things, all notes in the examples and exercises below are natural, but it would not change their position at all if some notes were sharp or flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At one moment it seems natural, easy to understand. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squares on the floor become trapezoids in a painting; everything gets gently distorted, but it looks perfectly natural to the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The legs and torso have been carved from natural ledges of the rock in such a way that the shapes seem to emerge almost imperceptibly from the stone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When Joel lets his chickens loose in a pasture, he is using their natural instinct to clean up after herbivores. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My field of sunflowers looks like a toxic waste dump, which might turn out to be a cool statement on society’s unthinking gluttonous exploitation of our planet’s natural resources. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stock still, either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place seems unable to decide if it’s natural or man- made. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Conveniently a natural test of the theory arose when the Shoemakers and Levy discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which they soon realized was headed for Jupiter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I went from contemplating the natural beauty to ruminating on the fact that the railway line, being so close to the highway, offered a convenient place for sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin had called these variants “sports,” implying a streak of capricious whimsy in the natural world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Able to speak four languages, he was a natural recruit for overseas assignments. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A natural question in a city as young as Mica. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

By time settlers got to comin' in, Cold Sassy was its natural name.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But theirs was not a natural isotope, it was an unstable isotope of phosphorus created in their laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Although she was sure that she had put a handful of mothballs in the wrappings, the disaster seemed so natural that she did not dare blame Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Play was something natural, I remember thinking—something which Nature wanted us to do to prepare us for later life. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her knowledge was born of vast experience, the natural cunning of a survivor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The medical examiner will determine if these were homicides, accidents, natural deaths—” “Natural?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Such natural control needs to be utilized to the fullest extent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Vivian tends to pick up discussions they started a few days earlier right where they left off, as if it’s perfectly natural to do so. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen Sarah called to help with a birth before, but it was natural that she should be called to this one. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret sang a pretty, wordless melody in her high voice; her natural squeakiness sounded conveniently like the scratch of a fiddle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He begged Blanca never to enter what he called his “laboratory” without permission, because, he explained, the plates could be destroyed by natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since they have no natural predators there, they thrive. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

What was I, a man or a natural resource? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed what he was doing was the musical embodiment of God's master plan for humankind, a recognition of the intricate mathematical beauty of the natural order as ordained by the Almighty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bull, pacing in front of Virgil’s desk, brought a restlessness and a fever to command, a yeoman’s rigidity, and a genius for inspiration, whereas Virgil had the natural instincts of a general. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jefferson’s version of the story follows a plotline that illustrates the natural and almost nonchalant way that history happens in an ideal Jeffersonian world. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We lose the ability to as we get older. Just a natural part of aging I suppose.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It asserted that Indigenous inhabitants lost their natural right to that land as soon as Europeans arrived and claimed it. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Why would there be a “natural” generation between us and our models? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His natural empathy and experience with the horses of the bullring circuit had given him insight into the minds of ailing, nervous horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her navel, the central point of the design, is a natural cavity in the stone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But like the Indians I’d rather discover my own medicines. They were smart enough to make natural remedies, and they knew what would cure you or what would kill you.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The channel we’re in loses its brutal edge, and becomes natural for a while. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not in the town, where all that was natural had long been sacrificed, but on its outskirts, one could still see the passing of the seasons. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like strangers. I don’t like Martians. I never seen one before. It ain’t natural. All these years you guys hide, and all of a sudden you pick on me. Leave me alone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will escape Cuba with a fortune in his suitcase, and die of natural causes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I found a little comer up above my head, to the right, and I discovered that if I wedged my head up into it, it felt more natural. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stared at each other and I contemplated the distance that had sprung up between us—how natural those words sounded to his ears, how grating to mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The natural custodian of bus tickets, bank receipts, cash memos, checkbook stubs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was natural to think of these fearful creations as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the people who studied botany were hippies who thought they could return to some natural world system. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was no natural depiction of his death, but a clear reminder of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I think it’s because they move slower than what’s natural for her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was familiar with the challenges associated with reforming institutions in which racial stratification is thought to be normal—the natural consequence of differences in education, culture, motivation, and, some still believe, innate ability. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Not from you, it doesn’t sound natural, and I like your old bluntness better.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barn was twice the size of the house, built on top of a natural cave that served as a root cellar and cold storage. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s a natural thing that comes to all women.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not human arrogance that has taken us in this direction, but the most natural of natural events. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very hard. I’m sorry. But don’t forget that you also say, ‘Always run the short way and the short way is the natural’—don’t forget that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle was remarkable for his explorations of natural phenomena, studying, for example, the development of the chicken embryo within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But change is natural; change is not new; change is important. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He found the natural noise and fuss and horseplay of undergraduates horrifying, after his dream. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped the lateness of the hour and my natural stealth would keep me from being seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he had never been trained as a teacher, the school asked Mendel to sit for the formal examination in the natural sciences for high school teachers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is a story too that he shrank and shrank in size until at last Aurora with a feeling for the natural fitness of things turned him into the skinny and noisy grasshopper. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels both natural and totally inappropriate to joke. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was a natural reluctance among many African states to support violent struggles elsewhere; but the speech convinced people that freedom fighters in South Africa had no alternative but to take up arms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one case the arsenic came from the slag heaps of mining operations, in the other from rock with a high natural content of arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The trident was a natural, deadly extension of his arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And holding the connections between them in her mind...It had once been like running, or singing, or telling a story: something natural. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At all costs, stifle my natural hideous laughter. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

What my father could not know then was that of the remaining three, including himself, only one, my Uncle Jim, would die in bed, of natural causes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Show your father what a natural learner you are,” Fezzik’s mother said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The minivan followed the curve of the ramp with only the slightest nudging, and by the time we reached the road, it came to a natural stop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed it would have seemed more natural if he had been illiterate, like most of the others. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pushed the cage into a dark corner and tried to make it look like a natural part of the junk stored back there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was those birds that had given him one of his eureka moments about natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not listen: “You ain’t in the pulpit now. You’s here with me. Even a Reverend’s got the right to take off his clothes sometime and act like a natural man.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She also encouraged her daughter’s natural musical talent by enrolling her in piano lessons. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A population’s inherent inclination to expand would be severely counterbalanced by the limitations of resources; its natural wont met by natural want. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Faster than any natural human could ever move. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

To him it appeared as though his father grudged him his brief training and his natural skills. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he felt certain that his theory was right, that new species were created all the time by the process of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved natural history since he was a boy; he wrote late in life, “my love of natural science has been steady and ardent.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat very still, the chill of his touch a natural warning — a warning telling me to be terrified. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My father died many years ago now—of natural causes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Here is an even larger truth: I am not in any way a natural when it comes to body movement. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

‘The treatment of natural things differs greatly from that of other sciences...In the explanation of natural causes, we must necessarily have recourse to a different kind of principle, called “hypothesis” or “supposition”. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The possibility that Mendel had deduced a fundamental natural rule—a dangerous law—by tabulating pea hybrids seemed absurd and far-fetched to Nägeli. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It seems to be neither liquid nor gas, mechanical nor natural. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"To take it away would be a violation of its natural right to live." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She calmly explained that our marriage had deteriorated and that she had lost her natural inclination for the pleasures of the flesh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not natural. It would do you good to talk things over with girls your own age.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I went on a field trip to New York to the natural history museum. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A methodology that has proved useful involves the comparative method and so-called natural experiments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You grieve beyond what is natural, and your body does weaken and waste away,” she says gently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If God Himself was to come down and ride the natural earth, that's what He would aim to look like. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the bedding and the towels were of a natural material. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1856 he became head of the natural history section of the British Museum, in which capacity he became the driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I would follow, mimicking her and fighting my natural clumsiness, pleased to be part of her game. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1785, he became possibly the only person in history to win a natural history museum in a raffle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why you don’t like you own natural color?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It felt natural there, held between his forefinger and his little finger by the slightest of pressure. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We can lead a full life and never personally encounter a natural disaster more violent than a storm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was certainly the only Hill girl that came in there and acted in any way friendly and natural. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I can’t seem to keep that up for too long before my natural urge to idealize goes into effect. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No natural thing could keep coming with two dozen bullets in it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Just as the tree took in the sunlight and the pig ate the acorns, the man is taking his nourishment from that natural cycle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Six hundred more years passed before this race of people returned to the mainland, among the natural black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to think it just as natural that “they” should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly possible that to someone on the outside, I’d look like Ruth’s “natural successor.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When humans died, their souls clung invisibly to their bodies for as long as they could—a day or two—and then they lost their grip and were claimed by the natural pull of evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sample weighed about a thousandth of a grain of sand, but it was thirty-four times more concentrated with the fissionable isotope than was natural uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mami gently moves from my roots to my ends, smoothing my hair for an instant, until it returns again to its natural curliness, like Papi’s hair. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think I’ve ever known such a natural at Potions!” said Slughorn, regarding Harry with a fond, if bloodshot, eye. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Much of the savanna is natural, the result of seasonal flooding. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Patrick would get involved, saying that violent crime was a natural consequence of the capitalist system, and then, eventually, the New York skyline would appear on the horizon and we'd all stop talking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, I should have thought the natural successor to the job, once Draco fails, is yourself?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t say she was leaving,” I whined, and it seemed that Papi finally realized that all our talk about Margie was not just my natural curiosity but something more. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before them people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how it could see without light, and it dawned on me, that the darkness was probably natural to the aliens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Therefore Marx says that these natural resources should belong to everyone, not divided into little pieces but used by all the people according to their ability to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All Miss Mortimer’s advice to Penelope about restraining her natural boldness was forgotten; in Penelope’s view, this was a true emergency. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

If he kept hope from his mind, then whatever happened would seem natural. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Playing mother to Thula’s children was easy and natural to Joyce in almost all regards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The buildings gave way to natural meadowland, and stunted olive trees lined the road, which forked unexpectedly a couple of times. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dividing was the natural course—fighting the giants one-on-one, but that hadn’t worked so well last time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it means to grow up with a black president, social networks, omnipresent media, and black women everywhere in their natural hair. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But you say they were gods?” asked Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, who was hard-pressed to believe in the divine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The endearment sounded very natural on her lips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After Mrs. Tesla evacuated the lab and called the hazardous waste removal squad, she praised Tyson and me for being natural chemists. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t dare claim that for myself, though; I’ve always thought the latter was the most natural and best thing.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The passenger pigeon remained an emblem of natural bounty, but now it also represented the squandering of that bounty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In her second week Eddie Diamond taught her how to disassemble an M-16, how the various parts worked, and from there it was a natural progression to learning how to use the weapon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radium had passed its prime as an experimental source, for in its natural form, it did not produce particles with the energies necessary for probing heavy nuclei. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“This beautiful, natural spectacle gave us hope and almost a sense of triumph. There was, after all, a force in this world far superior to our oppressors. I was sure this force would ultimately prevail.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some species — those existing at the limits of their natural range — might never be able to re-establish themselves, and the others could do so only with the aid of extensive stocking operations by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Galileo had realized that moving objects have a natural tendency to keep on moving, unless they are affected by friction or some other outside force. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The germ that spreads better leaves more babies and ends up favored by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had enough natural confidence to know the best way to survive my new facial deformity was to own it like a boss. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There is, then, a whole battery of armaments available to the forester who is willing to look for permanent solutions that preserve and strengthen the natural relations in the forest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘You haves grand electric lights. It don’t seem natural why you all the time sitting in the dark like this.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if she made light of it, they might consider drunkenness a natural thing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Men expert in the disturbances of love, experienced all over the world, stated that they had never suffered an anxiety similar to the one produced by the natural smell of Remedios the Beauty. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Always getting picked on, always getting laughed at, and all while fighting the natural doubts any person is prone to when trying to create—it wore Petey down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was a natural dancer—her petite frame and her long, graceful limbs made her movements seem as if they melted into the music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s grown it to her shoulders now, and allowed it to resume what appears to be its natural shade, light brown with bits of blond here and there. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy — it would have been more natural to ogle. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he was onstage, it was like the guitar was a fifth limb, a natural extension of his body. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would seem natural that Booth tell the others about his new plan. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A natural fortress to protect them from their enemies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Strange as it sounds, the more I stared at the tattoo on Shelly’s arm, the more natural it looked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I studied you and your teachings for a project in tenth grade, so it feels most natural to interact with you as a homie. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Such activities depend on a complex collaboration between the natural and the social. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Candice was still getting used to her mom’s small afro—it had barely been a month since her mother had cut off all her hair in order to go natural. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy, but the time we were spending together was starting to feel more natural. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The focus that day was on the preservation of the natural landscape and of the intricate web of life whose interwoven strands lead from microbes to man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even with so many different groups to choose from, I wasn’t a natural constituent of any particular one. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thus, natural selection acts oppositely on seeds and on fruits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler aimed the camera and focused his lens, waiting for our beautiful, natural smiles. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, Adams apprised Jefferson: “Your distinction between natural and artificial Aristocracy does not appear to me well founded.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps aids is the first step in a natural process of clearance. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all surprised, but Masson said that we’d eaten very early and that it was only natural because lunchtime was whenever you were hungry. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Some folks are natural bom kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Bull left a room it was a natural reflex for him to leave an order behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he don't drink nothing but moonshine all his natural days he be a better man than his Daddy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I swear it smelled like natural gas and pu-erh tea when it ruptured, which was weird and gross. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It is part of the natural world, the common property of all humanity. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had an eyestrain headache from trying to read in dim natural light, and even though the school kept its thermostat at fifty-five degrees, he hadn’t been able to shake off the morning chill. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was surprised, but didn’t question it, just hugged me back like it was perfectly natural. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The falling of the tree was simply a natural reality, like the passing of another day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

For a while last summer, I thought I’d heard them all, the natural questions of someone who hadn’t read the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some bands were driven north by wars, demographic pressures or natural disasters. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, the dominant position acquired by Aristotelian natural philosophy within the medieval universities resulted in a double inhibition on experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The progression of the front line is too uniform to be natural. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking it only natural that people should wish to talk to her, Lyra said simply, “Yes.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.15: The natural notes name the white keys on a keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Physicists were forced to confront astonishing paradoxes roiling their conception of the natural world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You and me? Not the most natural fit, are we?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

God had created and ordered the splendid, diverse natural world, unchanged from Earth’s beginning. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

People with autism find it difficult, if not impossible, to do all of the things that I've been describing so far as natural and automatic human processes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Enjoying our life of crime yet? The general seems to think you’re a natural.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There had existed in Old Russia millions of poor, ignorant people who were exploited by a few, educated, arrogant noblemen, and it became natural for the Russian Communists to associate betrayal with intellectualism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the current forms of animals were also the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millennia? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They closed ranks before they continued cautiously toward Edward’s family, exhibiting the natural respect of a troop of predators as it encounters a larger, unfamiliar group of its own kind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Classifying natural forms such as plants, rocks, and animals. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Strawberry did the most natural thing in the world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Horchow has an instinctive and natural gift for making social connections. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is often said that nature has no disdain, and therefore the natural death lacks the concept of anger, of revenge, of meanness, and that it is even sometimes—shudder—beautiful. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And gradually, it all became natural: light steps, small stitches, quiet voice, ramrod-straight back, deep curtsies without creaking knees, no yawns, soup tilted away from me, and no slurping. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know why this was so, but it seemed natural that it should be so. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Everything we sold was enriched with antioxidants or enhanced with natural super-fruit extracts or formulated for health and beauty. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Black hair, in its natural state, is “nappy” and disorderly, they told me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Father found it difficult to tear his own father away from his study of the natural world and make him focus on some point of commerce. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But his studies on wild populations, variation, and natural selection had already provided crucial insights to these questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But even if, as Cannadine contends, “Speech was the very fibre of his being,” that’s not to say that it proceeded in any natural way from that being. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But what is the engine that generates natural variation in the wild? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A large, bosomy Slavic lady in a bulky sweater of natural sheep's wool, purple slacks, high-heeled black overshoes with Persian lamb cuffs and a matching toque, puffed white, inaudible words into the wintry air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The earliest theoretical attempts to describe and explain the universe involved the idea that events and natural phenomena were controlled by spirits with human emotions who acted in a very humanlike and unpredictable manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not pushing their feelings, letting themselves be borne along by the natural flow of their hearts, they reached a point where all that was left to do was set a wedding date. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The principle at issue was straightforward: natural facts must be replicable and reproducible if they are to count as facts at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Apart from his natural feelings for his mother, if she were convicted of witchcraft he would be unlikely to be able to hold on to his Imperial appointment. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t like it when two or three people would be talking at once. That’s the producers’ natural instinct, to hype a scene by creating confusion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inspired musician with considerable natural talent, Walt still plays professionally from time to time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody pays to see anything natural. You pay to see unnatural things look almost natural.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it's possible that I have natural teaching ability. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The eastern areas where this program was carried out now enjoy a high degree of natural protection from the beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He showed a natural aptitude for jumping and loved competing, but nothing comes easy for my brother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Dobzhansky recognized that natural variation was a vital reservoir for an organism—an asset that far outweighed its liabilities. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In transposing down to the key of D major, you need to raise the A natural in the key up a half step, to A sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Jay, can you grab me a coffee? Black,” says Leo as if it’s the most natural thing. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And with the vast changes they sensed in the world around them, it was natural for people to gather and talk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was merely one symptom of her revolt against the Party and all its ways, and somehow it seemed natural and healthy, like the sneeze of a horse that smells bad hay. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was habit, natural to him as teaching. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest was clear as an engraving, so natural there seemed no alternative. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking the other day about the wonders of the natural world. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason it never did seem natural to see him there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Frightful looked at her mate of last spring as if it were perfectly natural for him to be there. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never made anything out of kite string and plastic swords, but it seemed easy, natural. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since there could be no natural explanation, assuming the star was indeed in the heavens, the event was clearly a miracle, a sign sent by God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Darwin had reasoned that evolution works via natural selection—but for natural selection to work, there had to be something natural to select. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Until then, the farm’s nitrogen had been recycled in a natural loop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Tell her it looks like she died of natural causes,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I did not die of natural causes, the will says. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her confirmed, eternal love of him, love that he didn’t even have to earn or deserve, seemed to him natural. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor and nurses had treated me in a natural way as though they had been dealing with blacks on a basis of equality all their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a purely natural process happening at the atomic level. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure now that he was a natural Communicant; his consent and a little practice should serve to lower his unwitting barrier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Synthetic substitutes for the pyrethrins have recently been developed, and some of the producing countries stand ready to increase the output of the natural product as the market may require. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

What could be more natural than that she would resent an unconventional person. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“This is one empty planet,” Viola says as we stop for a quick lunch, leaning on some rocks overlooking a natural weir. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The emergence of aids, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting with a population with natural variation in gene configurations, he had added a force of natural selection: temperature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For most of the last year she’d been wearing what she thought of as college-girl makeup: natural skin, blush, sheer lips, mascara. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It was just natural sugar-coated goodness. Pure saintliness.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by the tractors, and the fuel needed to harvest, dry, and transport the corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Many of those who weren’t natural writers gave interviews instead, and allowed their memories to be collected and published. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As a result, for us moderns, laws of nature are scientific laws and natural laws are moral laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He professed little interest in the spiritual life—but was intellectually curious, good with his hands, and a natural gardener. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With two temperamental rivers at its feet and a natural funnel of bluffs before and behind, it is forever being inundated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin himself could scarcely have found a better example of the operation of natural selection than is provided by the way the mechanism of resistance operates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, that was very natural,” said the coroner, “and I hope you were satisfied.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was no cleaner here, and in fact file air was even harder to breathe than in the cell, because all the natural stinks had been overlaid by a heavy layer of cloying perfume. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Sprat, writing a history of the Royal Society in 1667, repeatedly compared the reformation in natural philosophy with the earlier reformation in religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Cynthia E.—the girl who’d said about me being Ruth’s “natural successor” that time in the Art Room—I wouldn’t have minded her, but she went to Dorset with the rest of her crowd. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orbits of the present planets are the orbits of the survivors of this collisional natural selection, the stable middle age of a solar system dominated by early catastrophic impacts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mendel applied to the University of Vienna to pursue a degree in the natural sciences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was lucky he wasn’t born in a time when death was natural, because he’d probably never survive to adulthood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

English was the natural starting point, but in what order should I bring up the others? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn't stop myself from explaining: "I'm making a statement about my commitment to the natural world." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Soon after John Mayer put on the Space Task Group jersey, Carl Huss and Ted Skopinski followed suit, making Katherine the natural inheritor of the research report that would describe Project Mercury’s orbital flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Yet if the two of them shared many skills, they also had different natural gifts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Pong and the headmistress both laughed to see the old man so natural with the baby. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Also, it was above ground, and that never felt quite natural to us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in my heart I knew that goodness didn’t come natural to me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, she was just the head of the English department, a job that in the scheme of natural selection at Permian ranked well behind football coach and band director, among others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a natural tendency for genetically unrelated cells in tissue culture to come together, ignoring species differences, and fuse to form hybrid cells. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a variant of gross-beaked finch to appear on a Galápagos island by natural selection, two seemingly contradictory facts had to be simultaneously true. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For example, you can say "B natural is a half step below C natural," or "E flat is a step and a half above C natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

To his chagrin, Willey quickly recognized that the natural “knolls” were, in truth, human-made "temple-type platform mounds," evidence of a more materially advanced culture than he had imagined possible for the era. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My blood freezes, but I try to act natural—whatever “natural” means now. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Knees bent, swords outstretched, a seemingly natural extension of the arm, point at an invisible foe. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It's so natural that it makes what I'm doing seem so much worse. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Like those who think it’s okay to use the government to force you to do what’s against natural law.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are really high and beautiful with tons of natural light, and I see actual trees and lush greenery in the terminal right next to luxury-brand cosmetic stores. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And all this because you are such a natural American, first thing and last, if something other in between. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out front is a sunny natural patio, suitable for picnicking, that is edged by a few big rocks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a white polo shirt that emphasized the natural glow of his skin, and pressed khaki pants casually rolled at the ankle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hale slipped behind British lines on Long Island, saying he was a schoolteacher—a natural “cover.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw it as an issue of natural rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An analogy to natural language illustrates the point. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Though the quarry tunnels were natural, they had obviously been the lairs of generations of serpents; most of the signs were of a reptilian nature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was furious about The Origin of Species and hated Charles’s theory of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of the authority God had given him over his child and of how this natural authority had been armed by the state. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rob, with his natural grace and ability, was already talking of college scholarships and NBA contracts. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were: a mathematician, a natural philosopher, and, to no one’s surprise, the alchemist, Thyon Nero. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Word got around, and the natural punishers of new boys learned to let him alone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one connected various phases of insects to one another, and no one knew where to fit them into the natural order. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jumping on trains seems easy to me now, natural. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mother’s products were being sold by nearly every midwife and natural healer in the Mountain West. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By the late 1930s, Dobzhansky began to realize that his understanding of genes, variation, and natural selection had ramifications far beyond biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With no natural enemies out of the water, the penguins were easy to catch. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

However, it might not be Miss Granger’s doubtful natural charms that have captured these unfortunate boys’ interest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A natural caution kept her from looking for them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What generates the diversity of the natural world? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She matched her words so perfectly that the speech was not a speech at all, but one creature’s voice in the wild, as natural as a raven’s caw or a coyote’s howl at midnight. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I learned that they can’t help but gather up in a horde, and the dead are never lonely, that their natural inclination is to have a lot of friends. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Curly, textured hair, the natural hair of many African Americans, was seen as bad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A child’s natural decorum makes me refrain from imagining the scene in much detail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Both obsessive observers of the natural world, Darwin and Mendel made their crucial leaps by asking variants of the same question: How does “nature” come into being? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later, when Holly had gone back, he told Hazel that he felt sure there was some natural explanation, though he had no idea what it could be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain says: Juan, you are a wonderful, awesome human being and a complete natural at cutting mushrooms, and I love you. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Today, most people in industrial societies don’t need to know much about the natural world in order to survive. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven and his contemporaries even made the natural world an extension of their feelings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Unlike her little brother, Kendra was not a natural rule breaker. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“What my father calls a natural talent. I find it harder not to influence my surroundings, I was constantly breaking things as a child.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had seen Death coming and had stood his ground and fought it like a natural man. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Methuselah feigned indifference, but his natural curiosity soon overcame any chagrin he felt at not being allowed to pass the doorway. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And he said it with such arrogance, which sounded so natural coming from his mouth. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But this region wasn’t natural bonobo habitat, so it hadn’t crossed my mind that there would be any bushmeat hunters around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the natural order of things upset me first.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” she said without hesitation, as though nothing could be more natural. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his activities strictly limited by winter’s harsh winds and bitter cold, Cole noticed his body falling into new natural rhythms. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

This is the most natural idea in the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were America's first and, in many respects, its only natural aristocracy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I had a vision last night," Jeanne tells us, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To the fiercely inquisitive Greeks, the study of living beings had been intimately linked to the question of the origin of the natural world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was a natural mimic and his gestures sold the story. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fragile, timid, with natural good manners, he was, however, better suited for war than for government. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Our aim is to enhance, Your Highness. The first arcana is meant to refine one's natural disposition, or help one develop his or her talents, so that he or she may meet their goals." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had trained in the natural sciences himself, and so was considered fit to act as the under-writers’ representative in the College. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was working on several of these cases, including one in Gadsden, Alabama, where jail officials claimed that a thirty-nine-year-old black man had died of natural causes after being arrested for traffic violations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Science belongs to the very extensive class of activities which combine the natural and the artificial, which are constrained by both reality and culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But all the same,” insisted the Savage, “it is natural to believe in God when you’re alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death ...” “But people never are alone now,” said Mustapha Mond. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped in a tunnel of wet white rock, like part of a natural cave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So, too, a boat capable of sailing into the wind uses natural forces to achieve a result that would not occur in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Figure 4.30: A to C natural and A to C sharp are both thirds, but A to C sharp is a larger interval, with a different sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

An audience member asked a prepared question, and Arletta Paisley gave a natural but also prepared answer. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She was used to judging people by their faces, and it seemed natural to her that Winston should believe O’Brien to be trustworthy on the strength of a single flash of the eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The only reliable approach to the study of the natural process is through one’s own observations.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are also the many items that have been scattered by customers, dropped on the floor, removed from their hangers and strewn over the racks, or secreted in locations far from their natural homes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized that if such a process were carried to its natural conclusion then Earth would eventually be worn quite smooth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A population of organisms in the wild must have enough natural variation such that winners and losers can be picked. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But as natural as zero seems to us today, for ancient peoples zero was a foreign—and frightening—idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most interesting natural limit, however, is what might be called our social channel capacity. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what a field is, in natural philosophy?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 1637 he finally published the Discourse on Method and three essays on mathematics and natural science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And though there were no signs of struggle on Tali’s body, there was no doubt in any of their minds that his death had been far from natural. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had both rifled the darkest corners of Africa searching for Ebola, and neither of them had found its natural hiding place. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that “a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

An usher is about to direct us to some seats, but this lady with natural twists gestures toward the front row of the friends’ side, right in front of her. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The same logic had to apply to the natural world, Paley reasoned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, Dad talked Mother into letting him see whether new babies were born with a natural instinct to swim. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had no particular reason to be friendly, but there was something in Hazel’s look that made a civil answer natural. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in those days, then, prompted by my natural admiration for the lady, that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you terrorizing us? Why are you upsetting the natural order of things?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fellow “garden-lovers” and even some distinguished natural philosophers welcomed the work of this “ingenious woman,” for many of these metamorphoses had never been observed before. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I occasionally wore my hair out in its natural state, big and puffy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His crime seemed natural; he felt that all of his life had been leading to something like this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But time and distance are loves natural enemies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them are Survivalists, and I don't much care for their message of knowing one's place and following along with the natural order. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But I had dismissed it as belonging to the natural order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How were the Gawaines?” asked Lancelot, in the old tone which he had never succeeded in making natural. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, someone suggested a change in the dialogue to make it sound more natural. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have to worry about natural hair versus straightened hair; we didn’t worry about our hair at all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He knew the rivers and rails, the ruins and natural veins of ore, and dozens of escape routes he’d devised in case he was ever pursued by city authorities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In natural language, a word is used to convey an idea. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She cultivated wildflowers by the mailbox, relocated stones to form natural fencing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In new territory, out of reach of the restraining hand of the natural enemies that kept down its numbers in its native land, an invading plant or animal is able to become enormously abundant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

More than theology or philosophy, Darwin was drawn to natural history—the study of the natural world using systematic scientific principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

O silent indications of the inevitable, as among the natural restraints of winter and good sense, life blows you apart in her arms. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

So the natural thing would have been for her to go out and live with Judith, the natural thing for her or any Southern woman, gentlewoman. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yan Chang revealed this story in such a natural and lively way that I applauded her clever ending. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a public campground at Liard River, from which a boardwalk leads half a mile across a marsh to a series of natural thermal pools. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With all the pressure lately, with the wedding, he says that it’s only natural that I should feel amputated.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The way she’d nudged me and lowered her voice had made it all too obvious she too was expressing some assumption, probably doing the rounds, about me being the “natural successor.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be there natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed’s natural inclination to fight his cousin buzzed stronger than ever. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the term ‘natural philosophy’ was unsatisfactory because it implied the new philosophy was rather like the old, that it had no practical application. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This suggests that it took a while for Boyle to think of the word ‘fact’ as a respectable term to be used in natural philosophy when engaging with scholastics and Cartesians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, bands wandered outside their turf and explored new lands, whether due to natural calamities, violent conflicts, demographic pressures or the initiative of a charismatic leader. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we call molasses is just a natural part of the first grinding of sugar cane into syrup. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of these insects are held in check by natural forces, without any intervention by man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone think that this perfectly natural construction is ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the thirties and into early wartime, his natural vigor had kept these maladies at bay, but the sheer magnitude of the demands on his time and energy finally had caught up with him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

According to them the scientific method is somehow natural, like walking, not artificial, like a watch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Okay, you can speak English about it but I am just saying what is true. There is something scruffy and untidy about natural hair.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had encountered no statistical or natural error in his experiments—an impossible situation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Someone who studied natural philosophy was a ‘physiologist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When the Dutch biologist Hugo de Vries encountered the concept of the gene in the 1890s, he quickly intuited that the idea would reorganize our understanding of the natural world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The term ‘natural philosophy’ is not unproblematic for the period before 1650. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mesons had been found only in cosmic rays, which made them the natural quarry of high-energy physicists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Galileo thus established a new equivalence between natural processes and artificial ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But he could not tell whether it was truly dust or only a natural sheen of light on hair above black skin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt this in her breast and in her emotions, and her natural morality took hold. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought that they were natural enemies, that the lion could not meet a bird without eating it, nor the tiger the hare—eh?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The trouble is that we are seldom aware of the protection afforded by natural enemies until it fails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like Hume, he hadn’t yet smoothed out as an oarsman, but his natural inclination was to fight first and ask questions later, and it was starting to pay off for him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Challenges to the racial order during these periods are easily marginalized or suppressed, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identity, and ideology seems “natural.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been waiting for it to feel natural for me to talk to my mother, waiting for just the right moment. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better,” I could not help saying, “to have left her a natural heart, even to be bruised or broken.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whites are correct in thinking that black people are natural dancers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Lord Nugent soon found himself wondering whether this deluge was altogether natural. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Weaving a protection ritual around our camp would...rearrange the natural meridians. Those who are sensitive to the lines of energy would—if they are near enough or powerful enough, they would notice.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We would cross two varieties to see what new forms emerged from the rearrangement of the parental genes, and from natural and induced mutations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When reciting its texts, one raised and lowered one’s voice to replicate the natural pauses provided by commas and periods, stopping for emphasis or to take on a questioning tone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He got a head like a Martian—his head takes up about sixty percent of his natural body weight! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Copernican model got rid of Ptolemy’s celestial spheres, and with them, the idea that the universe had a natural boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His spot backed into a natural corner in the cave so that two of the four walls were stone. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“We have to return at the regular Saturday-afternoon time. We have to act normal, natural, unconcerned.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You’re certainly qualified, and he’s often said he would like to have someone raise the birds in a natural setting. He thinks they would adjust to the wild more easily.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so natural and clear, the right thing to do: fill the gap with the body of my brother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing a natural resourcefulness, he had little money but got himself hired as an au pair, or domestic assistant, to a Franco-American family. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Those invaders get winnowed by natural selection, and only a few of them succeed in establishing themselves as human diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was natural like Candice’s mother’s, but longer, with twists reaching down to her shoulders. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You have a natural counterattack and that’s a strength we can exploit. I’m going to have fun turning you into a champion, Ibtihaj.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If he hated, he hated because it was human for the enslaved to hate the enslaver, natural as Prometheus hating the birds. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"The rover currently parses the signal into bytes, then identifies the specific sequence the Hab sends. That way, natural radio waves won't throw off the homing. If the bytes aren't right, the rover ignores them." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also his first cousin and therefore a natural choice for a spouse. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But this was natural; she had barely arrived. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were no natural glens in all of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She had invoked the Mother’s mercy, appealing to the natural sympathy of one woman for another, but the three shriveled septas must have put their womanhood aside when they spoke their vows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now she was quickly returning to her original position: Dell Duke was not a natural at his job. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All they have is oats and hay and what they drop is clean and natural. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

From that day on the sense of responsibility, the natural grace, the calm control that Remedios would have in the face of adverse circumstances was revealed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She still believed the squirrel’s natural instinct would be to climb. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Charles was a natural athlete, with instinctive timing and coordination and the competitor’s will to win over others, which makes for success in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can bathe in our natural thermal mineral springs, which are known for their therapeutic value in the relief of common ailments such as arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism, and gout. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I see what McGona-gall meant... you really are a natural. I’m just going to teach you the rules this evening, then you’ll be joining team practice three times a week.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It is probably safe to say that no two people in the natural sciences have ever despised each other more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is true, perhaps, that I feel some trifling dislike of deer, but no more dislike than I feel for other natural things— discounting men. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z