What is natural?

Natural means something that happens on its own, without anyone or anything making it happen.

Imagine you have a big bag of colorful marbles, red, blue, green, and yellow. If you shake the bag, the marbles naturally roll around and mix up. No one told them to move; they just did. That’s what natural means, things happening because they want to or need to, not because someone made them do it.

What Does It Feel Like?

Think about a puddle after it rains. The water stays in the puddle because that's where it is. If you drop a pebble into the puddle, ripples naturally spread out, like a happy wave saying “hello” to all the other water around.

What’s Not Natural?

If you put marbles in a bag and pulled them out one by one, that's not natural. That's more like playing a game with rules. But when they mix up on their own, that's natural, simple, fun, and free!

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Examples

  1. A tree growing from a seed without human help
  2. Water freezing into ice on a cold day
  3. Birds building nests in trees

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