"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur." —Ashley Stimpson on why swamps deserve our love.
https://longreads.com/2025/10/02/to-love-a-swamp/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#GreatDismalSwamp #CongareeNationalPark #GreatBlackSwamp #OkefenokeeSwamp #BigCypressSwamp
New at Nature :: Spirit:
"In old Hawaiʻi, turning water permanently out of its streambed was against the law. It wasn’t just illegal, it was unthinkable. Because to the Hawaiians, ola i ka wai: water is life. Water is for everyone, and for everyone equally."
Where Water Wants to Go: thoughts on Lahaina, colonialism, and mālama ʻāina, or caring for land
#water #colonialism #irrigation #wetlands #fire #plantations #Indigenous #swamp #Mesopotamia #GreatBlackSwamp
https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/p/43-where-water-wants-to-go#details
Listen now (23 mins) | Lahaina, conquering water, and mālama ʻāina
Great Lakes Now (Unofficial)
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Priscilla Stuckey