allowing nature to take its course
Letting things unfold
Allowing nature to take its course means letting events unfold without intervention, accepting whatever outcome follows from natural processes.
The phrase often appears in medical contexts—declining aggressive treatment and letting a disease or condition progress: The family decided against surgery, allowing nature to take its course.
It can also describe stepping back from any situation where interference might disrupt an organic process: Rather than forcing the relationship, she's allowing nature to take its course.
- non-interventionismAvoid foreign entanglements doctrine
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
- ecosystem balanceStable interaction among organisms
- palliative careRelief-focused medicine for illness
hands off approach · end of life care · stoicism · holistic healing · biodiversity · acceptance · Taoism · trust the process · laissez-faire · let it be · go with the flow · fatalism · self-healing · habitat restoration · conservation · aging gracefully · wilderness preservation · circle of life
allowing nature to take its courseintervening
Coming between to affect
taking matters into one's own hands · interfering · meddling · stepping in · interceding
allowing nature to take its coursemedical intervention
Clinical action treating illness
life support · extraordinary measures · aggressive treatment · genetic engineering · chemotherapy
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