Atma

“It tells us that all is not as it seems and that everything we experience is but a filtered version of everything that we could experience”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“As we desecrate sensory environments, we become accustomed to the results. As we push animals away, we get used to their absence.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“Many birds of prey, like eagles, falcons, and vultures, actually have two acute zones in each eye—one that looks forward, and another that looks out at a 45-degree angle. The side-facing one is sharper, and it’s the one that many raptors use when hunting. When a peregrine falcon dives after a pigeon, it doesn’t plunge straight at its prey. Instead, it flies along a descending spiral. That’s the only way it can keep the pigeon within its murderous side-eye, while also pointing its head down and maintaining a streamlined shape.[*20”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us