Biology Quote by Lyall Watson

“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

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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,…

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“We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.”

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Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves…

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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…

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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…

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“He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary.…

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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…

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“To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.”

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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…

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“It is a truism among researchers into smell that all human subjects behave as if they themselves do not smell like humans, because all…

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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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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

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