state of nature
Example Sentences
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Even as he appealed to the state of nature, though, Rousseau questioned whether it could ever be recovered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
It’s a useful corrective for me to understand that the state of nature actually is the pull toward corruption and the pull toward self-dealing.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
And if there’s freedom, it is the false freedom of the state of nature, in which our weapons are always pointed and our eyes are fixed upon one another.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023
Tony Goldner, executive director of the TNFD, said that while the risks of climate change have long been a focus of many companies, the wider state of nature is beginning to be looked at.
From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2023
This is a substance that the bees, in a state of nature, in their native forests in Asia, can never have met with, or known.
From The Children's Life of the Bee by Maeterlinck, Maurice
