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| All Around Us |
| Cypress in the bayou, Oaks on the shore. Spirits of the past, Ghosts of the future. All around us. Timeless. Marking time. Here long before us. Here long after us. Shouting quietly, Waiting to be noticed. -- Nancy Brister |
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| Most of the photographs on this page were taken in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. The Atchafalaya is the largest river swamp in North America and contains the largest contiguous bottomland hardwood forest in North America. It's home to the 15,000-acre Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge and the designated Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, which stretches across 14 parishes (dating back to its history of being colonized by the French and Spanish, Louisiana is the only state made up of "parishes," rather than the more familiarly known "counties" of other U.S. states). The Atchafalaya is one of the most culturally rich and ecologically varied regions in the United States and one of the top ten wilderness areas in the country. There are a few photos from other places in Louisiana, as well. -- Nancy |
| Never forget the importance of the past. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth is to remain a child forever. -- Author Unknown |
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| Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We can learn a lot from the survivors of the species. -- Robert Fulghum |
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| Anyone can find history in a museum, creative explorers find it in places where others never think to seek it. -- Robert Wendell |
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| In New Orleans, our way of life is as old as the oaks that brush the ground. We tend to live our cherished past a lot of the time. For us, history is not a marker on the side of the road or a small district of quaint shops. Our past stands all around us, bears down on us like the towers of Manhattan on a first-time visitor. It is not just the momentous events of our history which occupy us, a thousand small things from the past inform the way we live in the present. Our history is a part of who we are, the great pillared oaks and the moss-draped homes are just backdrop. And if our history should consume us all one by one, but the city lives on, that, perhaps, was what was always intended. -- Mark Folse, "Carry Me Home" |
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| LINKS: Coleen Perilloux Landry's "My Louisiana" Gallery at PBase (Some of the very best Louisiana photos you will ever find) |
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| Photos on this page are courtesy of Kepguru, MyWildLouisiana, SouthLouisianaCuisine, NotesFromTheCrawfishPond, AtchafalayaBasinFestival |
| Please don't use the "Send page" feature of your computer to send this entire page in an e-mail message or document format. If you'd like to share it, please just send the link. The link to this page is: http://www.thepastwhispers.com/All_Around.html |
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