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In Loving Memory: Zona Beckwith March 17, 1925-March 2, 2011 | Florida Nature
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Sauntering Through the State of Dreams. March 17, 2011. In Loving Memory: Zona Beckwith March 17, 1925-March 2, 2011. I lived in that home for 15 years, and after I sold it four years ago, I too moved into “town”. Zona had seemed touched that I had included her in the “Sprawl” book. But in reality, it was I who was deeply moved—and honored— for having known her at all. Excerpted from “Losing it All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate my Cracker Landscape” :. Tall pines, which looked like long leafs, towered in t...
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Silver Springs: A Troglodytic Myth, Realized | Florida Nature
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Sauntering Through the State of Dreams. June 22, 2012. Silver Springs: A Troglodytic Myth, Realized. At the mouth of Mammoth Springs the main artesian gusher in the historic Florida tourist attraction of Silver Springs I have only two choices. At the Springs, my Dad, Mom, younger brother Jack and I climbed aboard a wooden glass bottom boat that floated over water as clear as our aquarium full of guppies back home. Beneath us, beach-white sand lay on the limestone walls of the spring basin like snow&#...
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B.B. King & Beluthahatchee in St. Augustine | Florida Nature
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Sauntering Through the State of Dreams. August 28, 2011. BB King and Beluthahatchee in St. Augustine. The session over, I walk out to sign books. An attractive dark haired woman in the session walks out with me and tells me of once reading an essay of mine in which I wrote about bears in the woods, a narrative that laments the way we are losing our wildness in modern Florida. She said it moved her to tears, and I thank her for having the heart to tell me that. And I think finally:. Never look down.🙂.
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A Blast from the Past: 1982 Prediction of Water Shortage in Florida | Florida Nature
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Sauntering Through the State of Dreams. August 17, 2011. A Blast from the Past: 1982 Prediction of Water Shortage in Florida. 8220;IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO HEAD OFF FLORIDA WATER CRISIS”. Special to The Christian Science Monitor / March 3, 1982. Fern Hammock Springs in the Ocala Nat. Forest. Winter Park, Fla. The Florida peninsula is in the midst of an unprecedented water crisis that will literally shut off the faucets in parts of the region in the next five years, if drastic steps aren’t taken. The sh...
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