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A passion for the natural is a strong foundation for habits of health and a priceless possession for one who wishes to know morality in its highest sense Natural" is less attractive to us than it would be had Agassiz first interpreted it for us rather than Rousseau or present-day exponents of "the simple life," "back to nature," and "back to the land."

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  1. adjective Present in or produced by nature: a natural pearl.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or concerning nature: a natural environment.
  3. adjective Conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature: a natural death.
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  • MOSCOW, January 2 (RIA Novosti) - The gas row between Russia and Ukraine has not led to any decrease in Russian natural gas supplies to Germany, the press secretary of the German gas company E. ON Ruhrgaz said on Friday. —  RIA Novosti
  • The decline has been compensated by an increase in Russian natural gas deliveries to Poland via Belarus and will not impact consumers, Gaz-System said. —  EUnews
  • An aincient road of manmade megolithic structures that can't be credited to any civilisation we know of today It was found there in the 60's - geologists have said they are natural which is like saying Stonehenge is natural: —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Washington Post, a dozen nations have reported a stoppage or slowdown in Russian natural gas. —  World Threats
  • Bulgaria plans to restart a nuclear power reactor it shut in 2006 if the halt in Russian natural gas supplies drags on and if Brussels approves, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said yesterday. —  Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 27/6/09
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātūra, nature; see nature.

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  1. from Middle English naturel, naturill, from Old French naturel., French natural = Spanish Portuguese natural = Italian naturale, from Latin naturalis, by birth, in accordance with nature, from natura, birth, nature: see nature.
 

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