That morning, as I stood directly over the whale from the pier above, I witnessed her breathing with every sense available to me in my being. I didn’t simply hear her breath, but I felt it sync with my own inhale and exhale, as well as with my soul.

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ” -Rachel Carson