🚿(under)water
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 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
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’”15 We need to become aware of our immersions.
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
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.
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
“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Vampire squid snack time. Photo by NOAA.