Furthermore, it is a liquid part of the immense, mystical, mysterious, powerful, and beautiful world. Thus, the ocean mothered organic life, and continues to nurture its ever changing variety today. As animals dependent on sight, humans see those things that block and reflect the light within transparent air and water. From this they have supposed that objects observed within the Ecosphere and the sectoral ecosystem that comprise it are indeed separate and self-supporting.
Primary importance is attached to the second category.
The truth is that life is not a function of smart replicating molecules nor of their aggregations as protoplasm. The world is your body, said the philosopher Alan Watts, and he was right. The Ecosphere with its volumetric ecosystems is greater, grander, and more creative than any of the lesser components. The ocean is more important than the fishes that swim in it, the air is more important than the birds that fly in it, the land is more important than the people that walk on It. This is the truth that few believe.