🚿(under)water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by 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

This is a Greenland shark – a species that can live to be at least 250 years old. That means around the time the oldest confirmed shark was born, the world was a very different place to what it is now.

Amie Pearce • The longevity of the Greenland shark

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

M. E. Rothwell • The Leviathan

“whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal”

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“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.

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

Amie Pearce • Meet the Thresher Shark

Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?

Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries

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 in—those ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an... See more