The Underworld Quotes

“The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition is an excellent source for news and information about how to take action.”
― Susan Casey, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

“Alan Jamieson—at the time, based at England’s Newcastle University—was a well-known hadal biologist who had written a definitive book on the hadal zone.”
― Susan Casey, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

“Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.”
― Susan Casey, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

“In the annals of bad ideas, this is one for the hall of fame: trawling giant nets through water thousands of feet deep to catch thumb-size fish and wads of gelatinous tissue that nobody wants to eat, but that we could grind up to feed the farmed fish we’re now being forced to breed because of our previous indiscriminate trawling with giant nets.”
― Susan Casey, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean