11 Lyall Watson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lyall Watson

South African Scientist

Born: Apr 12, 1939

Died: Jun 25, 2008

Life Live Sense Smell Time Water

Related authors: Carl Sagan Charles Darwin Galileo Galilei George Washington Carver Hippocrates Margaret Mead Marie Curie Neil deGrasse Tyson

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. Lyall Watson

You Challenge Invent Sense Group Living Unlikely Small Small Group Exist Common Common Sense Elephants Things Belong Credulity

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

Time Smell Sense Stretching Way Out Finding Lies Advance Long-Distance

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. Lyall Watson

Simple Would Would-Be Could Understand Were Brain

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms. Lyall Watson

Try Sense Find Look Terms Make Listen Biological

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain. Lyall Watson

Home Wonderful Inspire Word Smell New Makes Stimulating Brain Up Aches Literally Nostalgic Which Us Means Serve Things

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. Lyall Watson

Travel Communication Water Will Habitat Faster Other Air Defined Several Evolution Carries Kind Kinds Some More Physically Allow Supportive Well Sound Limits Fish Very Times Than Personal Sensory Largely Letting

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 for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience. Lyall Watson

Change Experience Water Made Our Air Our Lives Liberating Ancestors Range Respiration Easy Staying Constraints Having Remain Freed New Reach Within Wet Refuge Biggest Reproduction Sensory Breathing Us Expose Whole Lives

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 lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles. Lyall Watson

Somewhere Every Air Hundred Bits Bits And Pieces Thousand Rush Angeles Rises More Cleanest Count Highway Over Hour Pieces Los Antarctica Los Angeles South Pacific Centre Migration Even Thick Downtown Million Two

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 meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions - and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well. Lyall Watson

You Smell Too Our Our Planet Mood See Able Small Ecology Share Feel Well Understand Permanent How Hear Begin Buoyant Quite Being Heavy Might Meaning Planet Really Naturally Aware Imagine Soft

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