in the sea that was once near the surface now is done by trawls the length of locomotives dropped to the depth of a mile and dragged across the bottom, reducing many thousands of square miles of the ocean floor to barren deserts no longer giving birth to the tiny organisms from which emerge the great chains of being that sustain the life of the planet.

Nothing in the sea lives by itself, nothing either on the earth or in the air or in the minds of men. To know the sea is mortal is to know that we are not apart from it. Man is nature creatively refashioning itself. The abyss is human, not divine, a work in progress, whether made with a poet’s metaphor or with aTaylor fires up at ‘toxic’ accusation

Taylor fires up at ‘toxic’ accusation

EVERYONE likes pointing the finger when it comes to Australia's disappointing on-field fiasco in March.

Rarely can you have a conversation about Australian cricket without the ball tampering scandal in South Africa resurfacing.

What could simply be put down as a monstrous failure of leadership from Steve Smith, combined with David Warner cockily attempting to flirt with the rules, has regularly been turned into a debate equalling the calibre of a national crisis.

Former selector Rod Marsh blasted Australia's "toxic" culture in his recently released book. The former Aussie wicketkeeper said the ugly "win at all costs" mentality developed after his career behind the stumps finished in 1984.

Mark Taylor, who captained Australia for 50 Tests through the 1990s, took exception to