President_Truman_And_The_River_Of_Grass

President Truman And The River Of Grass President Truman and the River of Grass In Persia there is a proverb about a bug in a rug. This bug spent his whole life scurrying around the rug, living off crumbs people dropped in it. If the bug had been able to rise above the rug he would have seen that his life did have a pattern. He was living in the most beautiful rug that had ever been woven. Sometimes, like the bug in the rug, we don’t stand back and see the overall picture. According to Tebeau in Man in the Everglades, "Everglades National Park is at once a limited and vast sampling of a region full of contrast.... This park, which is chiefly of biological interest, requires a different perspective on the part of the visitor" (NPS: Quotes). The early movement to protect a segment of the Everglades coincided with the settlement and growth of South Florida, as people began to recognize the uniqueness of the wilderness (NPS: Park Establishment). People were lured by developers who transformed wetlands into dry lands. Some of these people had other ideas for development of the land, such as small farms and real estate development. park, everglades, national, florida, establishment, president, nps/park, south, truman, tropical, rug, public, project, effort, area, wilderness, water, significant, people, life, land, first, development, bug, association, years, year, wildlife, vast, support, resources, one, nps, made, local