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| The leaves of the sawgrass of the everglades
contain a very high proportion of silicon; creating a tough, resilient
and hard-edged fiber.
"There are no other Everglades in the
world..." |
| day 02 Saturday afternoon, January 15, 2000 Everglades National Park, By the second day, I saw it: as immense in its way as the redwoods or the columns of Bryce canyon, the sawgrass owning the trailing edge of the continent. Embellished with distant stands of slash pine and dotted with the islands-on-islands of hardwood hammock. I stop to watch an egret hunting, the wind ruffling his neck feathers into a splendid lace jabot. Hawks and vultures ride air currents against a god-huge acreage of clouds. |
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