Here in Florida, and especially south Florida, nearly all of us are newcomers lacking a many-generational acquaintance with our own land.  We bring yesterday’s understanding to a land so different from any we have experienced. In my 20 years here I have come to know and love my adopted wilderness and write, with my camera and in my books, lectures and articles, what is really, a prayer to nature – to the land and water and to all living things.  It is a love story of how I was enchanted by our swamp environment and came to love and respect her as she slowly revealed her beauty to me. I see what I do as the confluence of science, art, and the spiritual center of life.  I am passionate about this paradise and I want everyone to love and care about it as I do, and be sensitive to the inter-dependence of all life with its infinite perfection and beauty.