John Fowles Quotes

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

True Budo is to accept the spirit of the universe, keep the peace of the world, correctly produce, protect and cultivate all beings in nature.

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

A world of made is not a world of born

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every wondrous thing you experience, is all there, for You. Take a look around. None of it can exist, without You.

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.