Happy 75th anniversary, Everglades National Park!
There are no other Everglades in the world, as Marjory Stoneman Douglas said. They are wholly unique and no other National Park that I have visited can really compare to the sublimity of Florida’s River of Grass. I find myself to be so lucky to live so close to one of the most powerful and peaceful places I’ve ever been. I am especially thankful and in awe of its healing powers when my visits to the wilderness are a balm for weariness and stress, and the healing refrains of nature give me a reason to look to the future. Happy anniversary, Everglades.
On December 6, 1947, President Harry S Truman, dedicated Everglades National Park, saying;
"Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country."
- In The Everglades, you are on Seminole and Miccosukee land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, @sonyalpha #bealpha. Edited in #Lightroom. @lightroom
National Park anniversaries always amuse me. In layman's terms, these places are ageless; they are literally the very landscape we observe and are crafted by the massive and natural forces of earth. Their creation was not sudden or overtly observable. But here we are, ascribing a date to celebrate when *we* decided to preserve that landscape. That’s the real special part about today: it honors our commitment to this fantastic place so that it may last through the ages. May it always be so.
Happy 75th anniversary, Everglades National Park!
There are no other Everglades in the world, as Marjory Stoneman Douglas said. They are wholly unique and no other National Park that I have visited can really compare to the sublimity of Florida’s River of Grass. I find myself to be so lucky to live so close to one of the most powerful and peaceful places I’ve ever been. I am especially thankful and in awe of its healing powers when my visits to the wilderness are a balm for weariness and stress, and the healing refrains of nature give me a reason to look to the future. Happy anniversary, Everglades.
On December 6, 1947, President Harry S Truman, dedicated Everglades National Park, saying;
"Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country."
- In The Everglades, you are on Seminole and Miccosukee land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, @sonyalpha #bealpha. Edited in #Lightroom. @lightroom
National Park anniversaries always amuse me. In layman's terms, these places are ageless; they are literally the very landscape we observe and are crafted by the massive and natural forces of earth. Their creation was not sudden or overtly observable. But here we are, ascribing a date to celebrate when *we* decided to preserve that landscape. That’s the real special part about today: it honors our commitment to this fantastic place so that it may last through the ages. May it always be so.