Slow: the state of being animated light dulled by a force such as water, darkness, air or their physical bodies and thus moving and responding more with their speed than with that of light; it is the equivalent of being a secondary branch on a tree, supported by a secondary trickle of sap rather than a main flow. Its tension between action and inaction has its own charms.

Snail Going Slow.

Even its shell speaks of stillness.