Sy Montgomery Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A light, actually powered by the eel's electricity, flashes across a panel built on top of the tank to show when the eel is hunting or stunning prey....The eel was fast asleep. Then suddenly we saw the voltmeter flash. "What's going on?" I asked Scott. "I thought the eel was asleep." "He is asleep," Scott answered. And then we both realized what was happening. The eel was dreaming. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

2. I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

3. If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

4. In the sea, perhaps, time itself is slowed by the water's weight and viscosity. Even with just my hands in Kali's or Octavia's tank, time proceeds at a different pace. Perhaps, I muse, this is the pace at which the Creator thinks, in this weighty, graceful, liquid manner-like blood flows, not like synapses fire. Above the surface, we move and think like wiggly children, or like teens who twitch away at their computer-phones, multitasking but never focusing. But the ocean forces you to move more slowly, more purposefully, and yet more pliantly. By entering it, you are bathed in a grace and power you don't experience in air. To dive beneath the surface feels like entering the Earth's vast, dreaming subconscious. Submitting to its depth, its currents, its pressure, is both humbling and freeing. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

5. With Athena, I've had four of her arms on me, and you peel them off and then the other four arms are on.""I think we've all been on dates like that," I observed. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness