Natural Order Quotes

• Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Trouble, Macbeth Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

  Patrick Marber

  Thinking, Order, Tragedy

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Imagination, Literature

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• In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Order, Unity, Body

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Order, Careers

  "The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

  Hugh Jackman

  Children, Order, Ideas

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• Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

  John Berger

  Compassion, Order, World

  John Berger (2009). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.179, Vintage

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• Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

  Douglas Adams

  Order, Hitchhiking, Natural

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

  Walter Rudolf Hess

  Order, Energy, Facts

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• Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

  Christopher Alexander

  Order, Today, Environment

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Judith Malina

  Trust, Letting Go, Nature

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• I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

  Sidney Poitier

  Nature, Attitude, Order

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• One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Appreciation, Moving, Organization

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• Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

  Cathy Hughes

  Mother, Order, Violent Acts

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• Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

  Donald Curtis

  Life, Letting Go, Mean

  Donald Curtis (1961). “Your thoughts can change your life”

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• It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

  Robert Anthony

  Order, Perfect, Disease

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• Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Order, Insecurity

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.

  Thomas Merton

  Hurt, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 17, 2013

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• We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

  Dee Hock

  Change, Government, Order

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• There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Order, Rotten

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

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• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

  Murray Rothbard

  Order, Law, Natural

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