🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
Animal - Animal Ink - BBC Sounds
bbc.co.uk
Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré (1865)
In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planet’s last great frontier. There are no mobile phones down there, no e-mails, no tweeting, no twerking, no car keys to lose, no terrorist
... See moreJames Nestor • Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
"In ecological terms we can attribute the health and vitality of the whale to the ocean not only to the whale, and we can attribute the strength of the lion to the jungle (or savannah) not only to the lion."
Nora Bateson • Nora Bateson — The Paradox of Agency
Notice that before the creation of light, the seas were already there. The Iliad, too, calls Oceanus the father of the gods. The idea may be even older and may have originated prior to the separation of Eurasian and American peoples. Consider the first verse of the Navajo creation myth: “The One is called ‘Water Everywhere.’
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
One of the most recent additions to the shark family tree is the genus Hemiscyllium, known as walking sharks. These sharks are still evolving in western New Guinea, providing a rare glimpse of 'evolution in action' as they use their fins to walk’ along the seabed. It would be the stuff of nightmares if they weren’t so small and harmless. For now,... See more
Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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