Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. โฆ Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.
Paul NicklenWhen you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.
Paul NicklenThe penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.
Paul Nicklen