"Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we……" — Lyall Watson
"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."
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19 Quotes by Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson has 19 quotes on this site.
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If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel…
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Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or…
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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…
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I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #…
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The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some…
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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…
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Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward…
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It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in…
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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…
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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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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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