in a state of nature
Example Sentences
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There are those who think it’s about man in a state of nature, what we are capable of when society is made primal around us.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Animals living in a state of nature should be granted the same rights and freedoms as their human counterparts.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
In 1773, they wrote in what are known as the Sheffield Resolves that “Mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent of each other.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022
In 1977, when power went out for only one summer day in New York, swaths of the city devolved into something like Hobbes’s man in a state of nature.
From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2017
As to its beauty, those who know it in a state of nature, in its haunts on the sea coast, will agree that it is one of the handsomest of our large wild birds.
From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
