🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
"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
Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré (1865)
An animal that can change itself to match its surroundings, just by contracting its skin? That can weigh as many stone as a man and stretch the length of a carriage, and yet fold its body through a crevice? Whose brain is wrapped about its throat—a brain no larger than a pea—but who is clever enough to play actual games? An animal with this much
... See moreEsi Edugyan • Washington Black
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
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
