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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
â Arthur C. Clarke
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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.
â Revelations 13:1
â Revelations 13:1
M. E. Rothwell âą The Leviathan
If you donât have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
âThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.â by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
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 âą What Is Tao?
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 inâthose ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fishâa fragment of an ideaât... See more
Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.
Steven Rinella âą Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
The very same qualities that have made the âdomestic fishesâ famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred poun
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert âą Under a White Sky
Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead.
Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.
The algorithm must think Iâm a fish mass murderer. It wonât stop.
Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.
The algorithm must think Iâm a fish mass murderer. It wonât stop.