Nial’s Reviews > Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World > Status Update

“We humans have a deep and visceral respect for scale, both the colossal spatial scales of the Milky Way or huge mountain ranges, and also the giant timescales of ancient trees or Stone Age monuments. There is calm and reassurance in permanence, in slowness, and the liberating relief of a refuge from the complex and fleeting details of our messy lives” (p. 111)