Rachel Carson's Poetic Exploration of the Ocean's Hidden Depths
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Rachel L. Carson
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Summary
A poetic exploration of the ocean's hidden world, describing the lives of marine creatures from tide pools to the deep sea floor. The article invites readers to shed human perceptions and imagine the universe of water as experienced by the creatures that inhabit it, from crabs and dolphins to sponges, mollusks, starfish, and coral.
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To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.
Nor can we know the vicissitudes of life on the ocean floor, where the sunlight, filtering through a hundred feet of water, makes but a fleeting, bluish twilight, in which dwell sponge and mollusk and starfish and coral.
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