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a river so wide and slow it forgot it was moving at all
means A large, marshy stretch of low-lying land, especially the famous subtropical wetlands of southern Florida known as the Everglades.
from An American coinage from roughly the early 19th century, joining "ever" (in the sense of endless, unceasing) with "glade" — a word that today means a clearing in a forest, but which once also carried a sense of an open or shining space. So an everglade is, fittingly, a glade that never ends, a vast green opening that runs on and on. The Florida wetlands lent the word its lasting fame and its plural identity.
- secret river
- It flows, barely, about a quarter mile daily
- sawgrass sea
- Named for grass that slices skin like blades
- only place
- Alligators and crocodiles coexist nowhere else on Earth
- shrinking fast
- Half its original wetlands already drained away
- slow burn
- Wildfires actually keep this swamp alive and healthy
everglades national park — 1.5 million acres of wetlands in southern florida, established 1947
lake okeechobee — 730 square mile freshwater lake in central florida, feeds the everglades ecosystem