five thousand shades of blue

Friday, May 10, 2002

A few nights ago I watched the "Coral Seas" episode of Blue Planet on The Discovery Channel. I watched the coral larvae floating weightlessly, looking for a place to touch down, take root and begin growing. I didn't even realize that coral had larvae. I knew they were living creatures but, well, I guess I'm not sure I ever thought about how they reproduced before. To hear the narrator speak of coral structures that were hundreds, even thousands of years old put a chill down my spine. Compared to a hundreds-of-year old coral, our existence here on the surface seems so trivial.

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