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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Lyall Watson Lyall Watson (12 April 1939 – 25 June 2008) was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms. He is credited with coining the "Hundredth Monkey" phenomenon (an idea that has since been discredited) in his 1979 book, Lifetide. Read full biography of Lyall Watson → 1 2 Ctrl → If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. 0 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... → 0 Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead. 0 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 be blurred... → 0 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 small lump of... → 0 The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well... → 0 Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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 life... → 0 Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to... → 0 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 and... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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