Supernature Quotes

“Life arose by order out of chaos and maintains this order by collecting information from the cosmos. Cosmic forces bombard earth all the time, but the movement of celestial bodies and the movement of earth in relation to these bodies produces a pattern that provides useful information. Life is sensitive to this pattern because it contains water, which is unstable and easily influenced. Which”
― Lyall Watson, Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural

“Which means that living things are involved in an open dialogue with the universe, a free exchange of information and influence that unites all life into one vast organism that is itself part of an even larger dynamic structure. There is no escaping the conclusion that the basic similarity in structure and function are ties that bind all life together and that man, for all his special features, is an integral part of this whole.”
― Lyall Watson, Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural

“Life keeps time, and it seems that the beat is an old one, determined mainly by the rotation of our own planet, which turns the sun on and off like some giant cosmic strobe light. Life”
― Lyall Watson, Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural

“We survive by controlling our environment, and control is made possible by information. So lack of information quickly breeds insecurity and a situation in which any information is regarded as better than none.”
― Lyall Watson, Supernature

“A rose is a rose, but it is also a robin and a rabbit.”
― Lyall Watson, Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural