I assumed as a child that big fish belonged only to exotic, tropical seas. I didn’t see them in the Mediterranean I knew. But years later, in that same sea’s Medes Islands Marine Reserve, I finally saw all the fish I’d never seen before: sea bream, corvina, grouper. I saw all that had been lost to overfishing and pollution and realized that the whole Mediterranean must once have been like this. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/01/15/enric-sala-ocean-advocate/

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I assumed as a child that big fish belonged only to exotic, tropical seas. I didn’t see them in the Mediterranean I knew. But years later, in that same sea’s Medes Islands Marine Reserve, I finally saw all the fish I’d never seen before: sea bream, corvina, grouper. I saw all that had been lost to overfishing and pollution and realized that the whole Mediterranean must once have been like this. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/01/15/enric-sala-ocean-advocate/" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.