Lyall Watson quotes

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. (Lyall Watson)
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication. View quote
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I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way. View quote
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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. View quote
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air. View quote
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead. View quote
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Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time. View quote
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