WordNet
n. a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild" [syn: wild, state of nature]
Wikipedia
Natural State could refer to the following:
- The original name for the novel Masters of Evolution
- The state nickname for the U.S. state of Arkansas
Usage examples of "natural state".
Damien could see the effect of the drug in her eyes, in her coat, in her mane, but to one who didn't know the species' natural state she must still have seemed a magnificent animal.
He heard organ music below, a reverberating cavern-sized snore, and he followed Pitkin through a slit in the wall and out into the Great Hole, a vast underground chamber largely in a natural state (cool stone surfaces) but including remnants of ancient architecture (columns, half-walls, part of a platform) as well as elements of recent installation (fluorescent lighting and structural reinforcement).
It was evidently necessary to make trial of this substance, although not so valuable as Peruvian bark, and to employ it in its natural state, since they had no means for extracting its essence.
Important as it may be, in order to judge rightly of the natural state of man, to consider him from his origin .
Here I saw what I had never seen before, limpets and mussels in their natural state.
Worlds in which the low altitudes are arctic, and just barely livable for us, while the higher altitudes remain above the bulk of the atmosphere, and thus in a natural state, or close to it.