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“The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“It is in fact an orderly community. The green plants are food for the plant eaters, which are food for the predators, and some of those predators are food for still other predators. And what's left over is food for the scavengers, who return to the earth nutrients needed by the green plants. It's a system that has worked magnificently for billions of years. Filmmakers understandably love footage of gore and battle, but any naturalist will tell you that the species are not in any sense at war with one another. The gazelle and lion are enemies only in the minds of the Takers. The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them as an enemy would. It kills one, not to satisfy its hatred of gazelles but to satisfy its hunger, and once it has made its kill the gazelles are perfectly content to go on grazing with the lion in the midst.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings

“But if she has to try too hard, perhaps its the universe's way of telling her this isn't to be. She doesn't believe in God, but she believes in a natural order, a higher directive, to be gleaned and mulled and acted upon.”
― Mira T. Lee, Everything Here Is Beautiful

“Every creature has a right to be on this Earth. Who am I to disrupt the natural order? "Respect" is a good word worth handing down to our children.”
― Laurence Overmire, The Ghost of Rabbie Burns: An American Poet's Journey Through Scotland

“Every being has its own important and unique place in the cosmic dance.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The fox was dug out of a drain where it had taken refuge and thrown to the hounds. They tore it to pieces while a circle of human onlookers 'screeched them on'. The humans, White thought, were disgusting, their cries 'tense, self-conscious, and histerically animal'. But the hounds were not. 'The savagery of the hounds', he wrote, 'was deep-rooted and terrible, but rang true, so that it was not horrible like that of the human.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“The Nature of this realm is not Peace - it's Balance.”
― Affinity Soul

“Every disorder is the beginning of new and higher order.”
― George Sorbane

“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 and instincts, as our teachers at eloi school keep impressing upon us. Human beings are the pinnacle of creation, able to use rational, organized methods to place themselves outside nature, to control nature. But no sooner have they said that than they start evoking what is "natural," and to whom, and how such and such is the "natural order" of things.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

“To upset the order of nature, and even more the order of God, who, for us, is more natural than nature itself, is to destroy the harmony of forces; and violence, unbending against the rebellion of things, against the more terrible rebellion of souls, is the only refuge of him who wishes to maintain unity at all costs.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Church

“L'homme croit mourir pour défendre sa terre, sa femme, sa liberté, ses idées, alors qu'il meurt simplement parce qu'il est de trop.”
― René Barjavel, La Faim du tigre

“Natural order is pregnant with potentially great answers. Chaos is only fertile when it produces answers to achieving natural order”
― Dean Cavanagh

“[I]t had seemed as if two streams of things â€� actual events and his own meditations â€� had flowed gently together; as if not he, but Life were solving the problem in the natural process of the world.”
― Charles Williams

“People were so oversensitive to the supposed overfishing of sharks. As if it wasn't the height of hubris to decide that humanity needed to be put into the position of custodian to the height of apex predators. God had made man to fight and defeat his other creations. Why else would he have made his chosen children physically weak, but mentally strong? In the battle between man and shark, the shark should always have won. That it didn't, proved only that man was intended to be victorious and that he should be allowed to kill whatever he could before he, in turn, was killed.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep