#okefenokee — Public Fediverse posts
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When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
-- Sarah Kendzior⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SarahKendzior #Luck #Nature #Poverty #Wealth
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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
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Southern take for #TombTuesday "Queen of the Okefenokee", Lydia Stone. She was at least 6ft tall, & became a very wealthy land owner during a time when women were not usually empowered. My father saw her once as a very little boy. He never forgot it. I love visiting her grave! #Georgia #Okefenokee
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If you need a masterclass in well-deserved rest, look to the apex Landlord of the Swamp.
Nothing relaxes like an alligator on a hot July afternoon -sprawled out in the blackwater mud, soaking up the heat, completely unbothered by the world moving past.
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
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It's not politicians who will end oppression. It's the radicals, with the stink in their clothes, rebellion in their brain, hope in their heart and direct action in their fists.
-- David Bowie⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBowie #Change #Injustice #Politics #Revolution #Tyranny
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The Greater Siren doesn't fear a dry spell. They will burrow deep into the peat, secrete a protective cocoon, and wait out the drought until the blackwater rises again. Southern Cunning Folk know this: They are the *water* that *fire* cannot put out!
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By "educated" I would mean what Jefferson meant...having read the major works of literature, having an understanding of the broad periods of history into which the world's past is divided, perhaps speaking another language or at least being aware of other languages and having some competence. But I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
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An honor system, properly conceived, is not the concrete representation of the wills of a collection of saints -- our honest nature writ large. If it were, it would be nothing else than a bizarre superfluity. It is instead the proclamation and legislation of the intentions of a community of persons united in mutual agreement to oppose those inclinations and strategies that they otherwise might give in to and adopt to further their individual ends. The members of groups that create honor systems say: We are , all of us, liars, cheaters, theives, - but we want to live another way. We think we can, with others' help.
-- D. Heim (Rethinking Honor, J Thought 17 (1982) pp3-6)) -
#SwampLifeSunday #Georgia #Okefenokee #Culture
Visit the original post as it has three parts! I find this part of "Swamper Life" from the Okefenokee quite fascinating. Recording link included. 1 of 3 posts in thread.
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues.... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
-- Robert Pirsig -
Harriet Beecher Stowe found a "perpetual flower-garden" in the blackwater. Today, the blazing Solstice Sun illuminates the proof: a stunning Bartram’s Rose Gentian shining out from the muck. The swamp remains a glorious, beautifully untamed impropriety!
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Happy 11th Birthday #FolkloreThursday! 🎉 Celebrating with the ultimate Southern icon: the Gopher Tortoise. In regional & Indigenous lore, this ancient architect symbolizes community. Its deep burrows shelter over 300 forest species - a beautiful pattern of living together. #Okefenokee #Nature
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Science says the lights are just igniting peat gas, but a wytch knows better. The swamp & its spirits are masters of illusion. Foxfire / Jack'O lanterns glow eerily, distorting the dark and vanishing into nowhere the moment you step closer.
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While its kin exist only as impressions in prehistoric stone, the Swamp Darner flies on. As the sole living member of its genus, it is a Sentinel left behind by an older world - a winged relic keeping watch over the swampy basins. #SwampLifeSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #Dragonfly
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The Swamp Darner has been called a "Devil's Darning Needle." Folklore says they would sew up the mouths of wicked folk, liars & their ilk. Their long, tapered bodies evoke a sharp instrument weaving a silent boundary through the swamp. #SwampLifeSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #Dragonfly
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Called a "Snake Doctor" in old regional tales, the Swamp Darner was believed to accompany serpents through the swamps, healing and warning them of danger. Watching the Swamp Darner on its winged patrol definitely evokes an ancient allegiance! #SwampLifeSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #Dragonfly
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The Golden-silk Orbweaver runs three silk production lines at once. Her anchor lines are stronger than high-grade steel and flex like Kevlar to absorb a full-speed cicada, while the inner spirals stay wet, sticky, and deadly. Magical architects! #SwampLifeSunday #Nature #WitchSky #Okefenokee
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Spanish Moss is "The Veil" in my magical writings. It isn't a parasite - it's an air plant; absorbing only what the wind, fog, & bark from tree bring to it. The ultimate architecture for listening to unseen currents. What might it teach you? #SwampLifeSunday #Nature #Okefenokee #FolkWitch
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Mass intoxication first requires small, private capitulations. The force of the group substitutes for the weakness of the individual.
-- Alexander Karn (@xankarn) -
It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his cash flow depends on his not understanding it.
-- Paul Krugman -
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom recently joined the UGA Coastal Ecology Lab for a fantastic journey into the Okefenokee Swamp. If you get a chance to see the whole segment, do it! Here is the promo for it: #Nature #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Ecology youtu.be/n10G5Qp0Wio?...
How American Alligators Shape ... -
An alligator bellow is one of the most incredible sounds of the Okefenokee. Alligators bellow for several reasons - to attract mates, establish their size, intimidate their rivals, & to socialize. There's nothing quite like hearing this in person! #FolkWitch #Nature #Okefenokee #WitchSky
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"I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength - the marrow of Nature." ~ Henry David Thoreau, from "Walking" #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #WitchSky
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Happy #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! Meet the Swollen Bladderwort. She floats on the Okefenokee like a yellow star, but beneath her "snowflake" arms lies a hungry Mother. Her tiny bladders are vacuum traps that snap shut in a blink, sucking life into a watery grave. #WyrdWednesday #Okefenokee #Nature
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke