With these surface waters, through a series of delicately adjusted, interlocking relationship, the life of all parts of the sea is linked. What happens to a diatom in the upper, sunlit strata of the sea may well determine what happens to a cod lying on a ledge of some rocky canyon a hundred fathoms below, or to a bed of multicolored, gorgeously plumed seaworms carpeting an underlying shoal. or to a prawn creeping over the soft oozes of the sea floor in the balckness of mile-deep water. Rachel Carson
About This Quote

The beauty of this quote is the way it combines something so small with something so large. It removes the idea of any difference in the size of the water in the quote and suggests that all parts of the sea are equal. While this is true in terms of how much water is there, it certainly doesn't apply to all parts. The deepest parts are certainly not equal to the surface layers.

However, this quote captures how important everything is to one another. If one part is affected, then all are affected.

Source: The Sea Around Us

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