Sy Montgomery

Quotes by Sy Montgomery

• We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

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• To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

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