Lyall Watson Quotes
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If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is…
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Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is…
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Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience.…
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It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
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All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
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Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a…
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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…
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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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…
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Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water…
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Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every…
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We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood…
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I have had close relationships with three species of wild pigs, each a chance encounter on a different continent, and all continue to enrich my…
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Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
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