Life There Is Sheer Hell

Have you read Roger Ebert's Life Itself: A Memoir (2011)? Such an enjoyable, insightful read and pretty much what you would expect from the late film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner. (There is also an accompanying film you shouldn't miss.) Chapter 38 is devoted to  his friendship with filmmaker Werner Herzog. A quote by Herzog from 1999 stood out to me:

"Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue."

Straightforward, nothing new, but it gave me pause... thought I'd pass it on.