"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."

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Source : Lyall Watson (2000). “Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

Lyall Watson

#Sight Quotes #Air Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.”
“I don't know what the future holds.”
“I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.”
“What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.”
“Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.”

Source : Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub
“The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?”
“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.”
“You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.”

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