Douglas paints a wonderful picture
and idea about the Everglades. The Everglades are mysterious and a place that
are like no other place in the world. Douglas wrote, “…the grass and water that
is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river
of grass.”(Douglas 104). This quote I feel describes what you see when you look
at the Everglades, it’s like a sea and like a forest combined. The Everglades
are different than any other natural part of the world they are unique and
something that we should appreciate.
A name
almost as new as the word “Everglades,” it means “Big Water.” (Douglas 107). I didn’t
know that the Everglades meant big water I think that this is very interesting.
The Everglades is truly a big water system full of saw grass that has stood
through time. There have been many years and events that the grass in has
always stood through time. The rocks in the land are small and like eggs in the
sea, they stretch to the bottom and around the bottom of the Everglades. There isn’t
anything particularly wonderful about the rocks in this system but they are a
part of one of the most unique spots in the world.
There is
so much you can do in the everglades. There is a lot to see, you can airboat,
be a part of a new environment and see and smell new things. There Everglades
is something that needs to be prized and taken care of and something that we
should appreciate especially as Floridians. “If the saw grass here is four
thousand years old, many other of these associations may have been here almost
as long.” (Douglas 134). There is a lot encompassed in the Everglades and many
of it could be a part of history that stretches very far back in to time. There
are many species and plant life alive and well in this type of environment
there are things unique to this region that we wouldn’t necessarily find in
another location.
I think that if you get a chance to
see the Everglades you should take in all that you can, participate in air
boating, and see all the scenery that you could possible take in. This is a
place that you will find no other place like; you have one place to experience something
so different from that rest of the world that doesn’t necessarily agree with
human life on it, but does support life of many other things. “The mangrove
here is at least as old as the Everglades, of which it marks the end.” (Douglas
149). Everglades National Park
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