Lyall Watson Quotes

Lyall Watson — South African Scientist born on April 12, 1939, died on June 25, 2008

Lyall Watson 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 in his 1979 book, Lifetide... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

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, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

Lyall Watson Quotes

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