🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
One of my favorite ways of understanding nature creating more possibilities, is to watch water move through the world. Water creates the ways for itself, moving with gravity, moving around obstacles, wearing down obstacles, reshaping the world. When there isn’t an overt way forward, water seeps into the land, becomes a vapor in the sky, freezes
... See moreadrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Braud and his colleagues demonstrated that human thoughts can affect the direction in which fish swim,
Lynne McTaggart • The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
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Fascinating feats such as skin regeneration.
This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.
This evolution isn’t unique to sharks - starfish, sea cucumber, crustaceans and other ocean animals are adept in the art of cell regeneration, but sharks are the only fish with this remarkable ability to heal.
Amie Pearce • The self-healing superpower of sharks
David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
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
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 China the symbol in the center is also known as Tai Chi, the symbol for the two fundamental principles, the positive and the negative, the yang and the yin that are held to lie at the root of all phenomena in the world. The Chinese character for the word yang looks like a fish; it represents the light side, and means the southern or bright side
... See moreAlan Watts • What Is Tao?
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 13:1
— Revelations 13:1