"The most primitive places left with us are the swamps." - Henry David Thoreau
Although I grew up in Florida, I've lived away from the state for more than 50 years, and when I visit now it seems both strangely familiar and simultaneously exotic. While much of Florida has been given over to development, one can still find the Old Florida of my youth in wild places like swamps and nature preserves.
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