Alan Watts Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973
Birthday: January 6
Death: November 16
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.
source: Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press
topic: Beach, Moving, Book, Moving Water
