#okefenokee — Public Fediverse posts
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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 -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Dystopias are just utopias for the ruling class.
-- Anonymous -
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Shrinking to its marrow, the Okefenokee is a dust-choked cage. 15,000 gators swarm the deep veins or burrow into the peat to survive this "Exceptional Drought". They’re 16" late on rain and waiting in the dark. The Keepers are growling for the sky to break. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Georgia #Nature
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"The Longleaf needles are whistling a sharp, dry tune today." In this drought, the old folks would say the "Devil is holding the match and just waiting for the wind to check its watch." Keeping a close eye on the swamp today - it's thirsty and the fire-voice is loud. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
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The Resurrection Fern is curled tight today in the Okefenokee; a 'test of faith' in this historic drought Georgia is in. In the old lore, the swamp is just holding its breath... Waiting on wetter days to come. #Okefenokee #SwampSunday #Folklore #Nature
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch
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Wintering is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.
-- Katherine May (Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KatherineMay #Courage #Meaning #Perseverance #Sadness
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Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
-- Philip K. Dick -
Hidden in plain sight, the marsh rabbit builds a fortress of secrets. Deep in the Okefenokee, it weaves globular nests of dried grass directly onto the floating peat - masterfully camouflaged and accessible only by watery trails. A true swamp architect! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky #Nature
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The marsh rabbit is the swamp’s quietest triumph. Unlike its dry-land cousins, this elusive trickster has mastered both worlds. Building grass nests on floating peat and diving into blackwater to vanish from sight: a land animal with a water soul! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #WitchSky
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The marsh rabbit is the ultimate swamp trickster. Unlike its dry-land cousins, this "phantom" swims and dives to outwit the alligator. It’s a classic battle of wits where the small and clever always finds a way to stay one hop ahead of the jaws. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Folklore
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You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
-- Richard Feynman -
Hype for the Future 149H: Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Overview Within the State of Georgia, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge exists to protect a large portion of the area associated with the Okefenokee Swamp, which also extends south into the State of Florida. Protected counties include Charlton, Ware, and Clinch in Georgia; and Baker in Florida. -
Got a "sting" from a swamp plant or orchid? According to Foxfire lore, the cure is right under your feet. A cool "mud poultice" of swamp clay or clean peat draws the "fire" out of the skin. Nature provides the bane and the blessing in the same boggy soil. #FolkloreThursday #Foxfire #Okefenokee
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In the Okefenokee, the Rose Pogonia is a floral warning. Lore says its fleshy roots are young snakes "sleeping" in the peat. Dig one up & you’ve disturbed a nest; pick the bloom & the mother cottonmouth will track the scent to find you. 🐍🌸 #FolkloreThursday #Okefenokee #PlantLore
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To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism
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Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky
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Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.
-- William Gibson (@GreatDismal) -
Stupidity is knowing the truth, but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.
-- Richard Feynman -
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
-- Maimonides (1135-1204) -
We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another.
-- Oliver Burkeman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OliverBurkeman #Internet #SocialMedia #Time
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
Mass intoxication first requires small, private capitulations. The force of the group substitutes for the weakness of the individual.
-- Alexander Karn (@xankarn) -
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Allowance for idiocy: i) Systems can't be designed to be idiot-proof, at least not at any reasonable cost, because society continually develops better idiots. ii) Systems shouldn't be designed to be idiot-proof, because people do better work when they stay engaged in the process and because overly complex systems just get in the way. iii) Systems will never be idiot-proof as long as people are willing to spend time and money on writing and debugging business logic but can't be bothered to develop business process models or put instrumentation into the business environment.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (Jan 2005)) -
High Levels of Mercury Found in Alligators in Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia https://www.ecowatch.com/alligators-mercury-okefenokee-swamp.html
#Okefenokee #swamp #environment #wildlife #alligators #mercury
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All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle -
"That was a punch in the face because we planned to do a lot of outdoor stuff (hiking, walking around, exploring, campfires, etc.) but we just couldn’t get the weather to cooperate. We did manage to make some of those things happen, but it was limited."
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#travel #rvtravel #rvlife #thisiswhyiretired #routetoretire #earlyretirement #retireearly #livingthedream #lovinglife #lifeisgood #permanentvacation #adventure #florida #georgia #ameliaisland #bigfoot #okefenokee