"I often used to think of Colette on seaweed-picking expeditions.....She... would have been the perfect translator of the underwater world...She would have clarified for us these shadowy landscapes and  revealed to us the secret reasons behind our preferences and dislikes in an element where we still lack positive enough reasons for liking or disliking. She would have put this luxuriant world on a human scale."

Philippe Diole  The Undersea Adventure

Written in 1953. Page 166.

 

Ocean 2002