"The limits of sensory evolution in fish are……" — 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."
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Lyall Watson
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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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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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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense…
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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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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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