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The Swamp by Michael Grunwald5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a river of grass." Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. Nothing anywhere else is like them their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of the their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. ![]() "There are no other Everglades in the world. ![]()
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