¶ Coral Reef
RBF Definitions
The little coral animal that throws off chemical excretions that incidentally form its little house. It is totally unaware of shaping this intricate dwelling-sieve mechanism which lets in the micro sea organisms it requires for metabolic sustenance and excludes all that is deleterious to it. I am quite confident that the coral animal is unaware of its participation in the building of a vast coral animal apartment house, the coral frond, or the result of its subconsciously coordinate building of a coral reef, or of the effect of the coral reef in changing the ocean’s warm currents and the ecological effects of this wobbling of the great hot water heating system of life in the biosphere and thereby in turn on the pattern of great continental masses. Man similarly does not think of himself as an essential and unself-consciously operative function of the Universe, but that he is." - Cite RBF Interview in AAUW Journal, p. 175, May '65
¶ Citations
- RBF Interview in AAUW Journal, p. 175, May '65
