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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
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
"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
Though people often talk about Asian carp as if it were a single species, the term is a catchall for four fish. All four are native to China, where they’re referred to collectively as 四大家鱼, a phrase that translates into English roughly as the “four famous domestic fishes.” The Chinese raise the famous four together in ponds and have been doing so
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
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
The very same qualities that have made the “domestic fishes” famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
What the student needed above all was the chance to learn to think for himself. So he ought to pursue the line of investigation that interested him most, just as, conversely, a professor ought to be perfectly free to devote his own efforts however he chose. One term, a course of twenty-one lectures was offered on sharks alone, a favorite topic of
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.