Follow nature, said Pope, in his Essay, but beware of taking nature at first hand.
Able writers have sometimes ridiculed the precept, "Follow nature," which means the laws of human nature, not perceiving that they were the necessary foundation of morals.
Having thus, in his first precept, to follow nature, settled criticism on its true foundation; he proceeds to show, what assistance may be had from art.
To be happy then was to be virtuous, to be virtuous was to be rational, to be rational was to follow Nature, and to follow Nature was to obey God.
As reason was the only thing whereby Nature had distinguished man from other creatures, to live the rational life was to follow Nature.
Why into Abstine et sustine rather than into Follow nature, or, Conduct your private affairs without injustice, as Plato, or anything else?
Men of unruly lives assert that they alone follow nature, while those who are orderly stray from her paths; as passengers in a ship think that those move who stand upon the shore.
If austerity or a rigid choice have not found the true good, and we must needs return to follow nature, it becomes proud by reason of this return.
Contrast with these men the Stoics, whose rule of life was to follow Nature, and to eschew the pursuit of pleasure.
The three doctrines, that the norm of moral action is to follow nature, that it is to aim at the attainment of perfection, and that it is the realization of one's capabilities, have much in common.
Early in the history of the ethics we find the moralist preaching that it is the duty of man to follow nature, and branding vice as unnatural and, hence, to be abhorred.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "follow nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
