“The salt which is in our seawater is in our blood, sweat and tears. Each of us has breathed warm saline for days on end and survived. The lungs themselves derive from fused pharyngeal pouches, and gill slits still form temporarily in all chordate embryos, including humans. This reminds us that something which became Homo did crawl up a beach many years ago. The satisfaction for certain people of walking back down a beach and into the sea is akin to that of a long postponed homecoming.”
Seven Tenths – The Sea and its Threshholds, James Hamilton-Paterson
