"To adapt what Robert Macfarlane says in his wonderful book Mountains of the Mind, coral reefs are the contingencies of geology and biology, ‘products of human perception…imagined into existence down the centuries’. Now that we are in the Age of the Anthropocene, where humans have for the first time begun to influence geological change, this ‘collaboration of he physical forms of the world with the imaginations of humans has surely never been more important."
From The Reef
A Passionate History
Iain McCalman