visdārgākais materiāls

visdārgākais materiāls visā universā ir dzīvi, dzīstoši, elpojoši audi.
vēl dārgāks ir tikai beigtais, irstošais, zūdošais - dārgs tāds mirklis sakrist laikā un vietā, lai paceltu no zemes un saglabātu.

kādi vēl dimanti.

dzīvā fosīlija: When the phone rang, Courtenay-Latimer briefly considered declining. It was a hot day, and she had no cold storage to keep any fish Goosen may have for her. In the end, she decided to take the opportunity to wish the fishermen a Merry Christmas. To her surprise, buried under a pile of fish on the deck, she found a Christmas present of her own. “I saw a blue fin, and pushing off the fish, the most beautiful fish I had ever seen was revealed”, she later wrote. The fish that caught Courtenay-Latimer’s eye was 5-foot-long (1.52m) and a pale violet-blue with iridescent silver markings. She’d have to fight hot weather and cold reactions to preserve her stunning find.

With cold storage out of the picture, Courtenay-Latimer turned to a local taxidermist for help. When Smith’s reply finally came – over a week later, on 3 January 1939 – his appeal that it was “Most important [to] preserve [the] skeleton and gills [of the] fish described” came too late. To compound the loss, Courtenay-Latimer discovered that the photographer’s film had been damaged. So all that was left of the fish was its mounted skin, her sketches, and the notes that she and the taxidermist had taken. Nevertheless, her detailed observations were enough for Smith to confirm that this was a jaw-dropping find.