🚿(under)water

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

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

A Stream Flowing From The Sea

"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

M. E. Rothwell • The Leviathan

Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré (1865)

Amie Pearce • Meet the Basking Shark

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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?”

Jeff Mohr • What is complexity?

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

This is the “fish in water” effect at work — because we are immersed in our emotions’ effects every moment of our lives, we tend to talk about them only when they’re exceptionally strong.

David Cain • A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids

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.