Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…

“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man…

— David Bowles

In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop…

— Sam Keen

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes…

— Benjamin Hoff

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care.…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

“We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.”

— Alan Harrington

“There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that…

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo…

— Sam Harris

“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled by drives…

— Johanna Sinisalo

“A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary…

— Walter Hess

Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once…

— Anonymous

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

— Judith Malina