Singing Whales and Flying Squid Quotes

“All food available in the depths of the ocean is animal matter, and the food chain depends upon the constant rain of minuscule particles ('undersea snow') from the surface layers, usually the remains of animals that have died. 'When I think of the floor of the deep sea,' wrote Rachel Carson, 'the single overwhelming fact that possesses my imagination is the accumulation of sediments. I always see the steady, unremitting, downward drift of materials from above, flake upon flake, layer upon layer - a drift that has continued for hundreds of millions of years, that will go on as long as there are seas and continents.' Life in the depths depends upon death in the shallows.”
― Richard Ellis, Singing Whales and Flying Squid: The Discovery of Marine Life