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Oceanography
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Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more we look, the more we learn that everything arises from the sea and everything falls away to the sea, and the deep blue home is home to every one of us, whether we are beings of water, air, rock, ice, or soil.
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― Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
― Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
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Pip loved watching undergrads picking their way through buckets of clams, cockles and pipis, trying to classify each species by the size and hue of the shell, counting basal threads dangling like silk, or holding a limpet up to the light and running their fingers over tiny yellow ridges skirting the shell, marveling at the perfect grey and white logarithmic spiral of the elephant snail.
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― The Midsummer Garden
― The Midsummer Garden
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