Quote by Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great m

Summary

This quote highlights the extraordinary power and dominance of our sense of sight. Unlike other senses such as taste or touch, which require close proximity to the object of perception, our eyes can gather information from great distances. Vision allows us to effortlessly traverse vast landscapes, transcend time and space, and gather copious amounts of information in the process. In contrast, animals that have superior hearing capabilities may be limited to perceiving what is immediately around them. Thus, this quote underscores the unique and unrivaled monopoly that our eyes possess among our senses.

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