đż(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
â Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks đŚ
đż(under)water
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.
Amie Pearce ⢠The longevity of the Greenland shark
The things that will survive are the things that are already in some sense endless. The sea; the night; the word. Things with deep fathoms of darkness in them.
Sam Kriss ⢠The internet is already over
If you donât have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
âThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.â by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
David Lynch on ideas:
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish inâthose ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fishâa fragment of an... See more
Destruction of Leviathan â Gustave DorĂŠ (1865)
This is the âfish in waterâ effect at work â because we are immersed in our emotionsâ effects every moment of our lives, we tend to talk about them only when theyâre exceptionally strong.
David Cain ⢠A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.
Ed Yong ⢠An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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.