It's a terrifyingly lyrical expression of Lena's summary statement in the book: «It creates out of our ecosystem a new
world, whose processes and aims are
utterly alien — one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.»
Travel is all about discovering what wonders the planet has to offer, and diving under the waves reveals another
world entirely
alien to our own: beautiful, mysterious, and
utterly captivating.