John Wyndham

"In Nature, life is growth, and preservation is an accident."

--John Wyndham, Pillar to Post

"Man is a product of Nature...whatever he does, it must be part of his nature to do it - or he could not do it. He is not, and cannot be, unnatural...He is an instrument of natural processes."

--John Wyndham, Web

"Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable."

--John Wyndham, Chocky

"I don't see Why."

--Eight year-old Petra,
The Chrysalids, p144,
John Wyndham

"Reality is relative. Devils, evil spirits, witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them. Just as God is to people who believe in Him. When people live their lives by their beliefs, objective reality becomes almost irrelevant.
--John Wyndham, Chocky, p34

"When a day you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."

--John Wyndham, opening paragraph of The Day Of The Triffids

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