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April, 1981 

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Photos by Ken Taylor 



Prickly cockle 



Lion 's paw 



Scotch bonnet 



To understand the life of the shore, it is not 

 enough to pick up an empty shell and say. "This 

 is a murex," or "That is an angel wing." True 

 understanding demands intuitive comprehen- 

 sion of the whole life of the creature that once in- 

 habited this empty shell: how it survived amid 



Giant Atlantic murex 



surf and storms, what were its enemies, how it 

 found and reproduced its kind, what were its 

 relations to the particular sea world in which it 

 lives. 



— from The Edge of the Sea 

 by Rachel Carson 



