The sea is our former home: the cells from which our species of life emerged lived in water, and we ourselves floated in water for the first nine months of our lives. We remember its sound, our safe buoyancy — not in our conscious memories, but in a more primitive part of us. Our own past, our human past, our evolutionary past: they all sprang from the deep, the great mass of water that dwarfs the body and calms the mind.
— Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Meditations on the Book of Psalms