Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' -… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well,… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.” — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right. — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary.… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
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… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“It is a truism among researchers into smell that all human subjects behave as if they themselves do not smell like humans, because all… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
