Quotes About Marshlands

Everyone is going to want to come and look at my garden.' 'Give them seeds or cuttings and send them off,' Shift said. 'Tell them the Little God of the Marshlands says they should grow their own gardens.' 'That's good,' Addy said. 'People here respect gods.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

A bloodstained, scarlet sky, streaked with finger-smears of black and handfuls of hard-flung gold. Then a watery dawn rises out of the marshlands, pale blues and greys and muddied-down greens, like daybreak in a virgin's watercolour.

In the lowcountry, the smell of the marshlands is offensive to visitors, but is the fragrant essence of the planet to the native born.