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Lyall Watson was a renowned author known for his profound insights into human behavior and culture. His works span a wide range of fields, including anthropology, psychology, and mysticism.

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All Ifs Water Air Common Common Sense Sound Understanding Abolish Accurate Advantage

Famous Lyall Watson Quotes

“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.”

Matter Sound Water Common Attention Air Direct Sight Common Sense Contact Chemicals Sight And Sound

Book:Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

Source: Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

“Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.”

Reality Reflection Advantage Female Opposites Strategy Males Ems Copies Fewer Genes Accurate Nasty Maximum Selective Inhibitions Male Chauvinist

Author:Lyall Watson

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

Ifs Inspirational Wisdom Would Be Science Understanding Simple Inspiring Brain Wise Inspire Self Improvement Intelligence Paradox Human Brain Paradoxical

Author:Lyall Watson

“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”

Trying Results Silence Succeed Busy Destroying Tranquility Abolish Intervals Insistence Manic

Author:Lyall Watson

“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”

Giving Form Artist Understanding Space Painting Expression Dancing Metaphor Creator Architecture Cosmos Relevant Mechanic Time And Space Dance Life Poetry And Music

Author:Lyall Watson

“It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.”

Body Water Deserve Rain Rivers Fascinating Organisms Provocative Water Fountain Bodies Of Water

Book:The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history

Source: The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history

“If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.”

Ifs Long Important Different Home Purpose Walks Journey Special Color Return Shapes Beach Destination Reach Out Doing You Long Journey

Author:Lyall Watson

“Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.”

Ifs Moments Dream Life Is Consciousness

Author:Lyall Watson

“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.”

Ifs Challenges Common Groups Common Sense Elephants Unlikely Living Things Small Groups Credulity

Book:Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

Source: Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

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

Way Light Memories Intuition Guides My Way Travel Light

Author: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.”

Wells Kind Sound Water Air Communication Evolution Limits Fishes Defined Faster Carrie Supportive Sensory Habitat

Author:Lyall Watson

About the Author

Born: April 12, 1939
Died: June 25, 2008
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

Books & Sources

Elephantoms: Tracking the ElephantRelated source material

Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of SmellRelated source material

The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural historyRelated source material

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