🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
by baja · updated 1d ago
🚿(under)water
- Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous names.
— Revelations 13:1from The Leviathan by M. E. Rothwell
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- A large chapter is dedicated to the fish symbolism of the self, in which a fish may be caught in the deep sea and incorporated into the human body. The sea represents the unconscious and the unknown, and the fishing is the symbol for the self and was for a long time a symbol for Christ. It also represents a tradition of “integrating” Christ into on... See more
from Carl Jung’s Scariest Book
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fish symbol
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A Bryde’s whale by Rafael Fernandez Caballero; Baja California Sur, Mexico
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Imagine tiny blue sailboats, no bigger than the palm of your hand, drifting across the ocean's surface. They aren't toy boats, or a deflated plastic bag, but living beings known as by-the-wind sailors.
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
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I'm not sure I would've believed that a blue whales heartbeat can be heard from 3km away, until I saw how big they are 🤯
Amy Pearce
- While other vertebrates, such as the rougheye rockfish and the bowhead whale, can reach an impressive age of around 200 years, the Greenland shark is by far the longest-lived vertebrate with some estimates as high as 512 years.
from The longevity of the Greenland shark by Amie Pearce
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- This is a Greenland shark – a species that can live to be at least 250 years old. That means around the time the oldest confirmed shark was born, the world was a very different place to what it is now.
from The longevity of the Greenland shark by Amie Pearce
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