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We were to be rounded up and imprisoned in 10 barbed-wire prison camps in some of the most desolate places in America: the blistering hot desert of Arizona, the sultry swamps of Arkansas, the wastelands of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and two of the most desolate places in California.
We were taken two thirds of the way across the country, rocking on that train for four days and three nights, to the swamps of Arkansas.
The heart fights among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, falls exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the stillness.
We're a state that's surrounded and defined by water, and yet for centuries, swamps and wetlands have been regarded as these obstacles to overcome.
They nest and they mate and they breed in these old-growth swamps in these flooded forests.
Now despite all this rich life that abounds in these swamps, they still have a bad name.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
We went on 8,000 miles across America in the summer of 2013, through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line.
In the swamps behind his house, he found a plant that would spring shut every time a bug would fall in between it.
Life flourished in swamps.
In the Cambrian explosion, life emerged from the swamps, complexity arose, and from what we can tell, we're halfway through.
This little creature spends its days splashing in Late Triassic swamps with a host of other reptiles.
There's not a lot of room for either in the malarial swamps of the Asmat or in the chilling winds of Tibet, but they have, nevertheless, through time and ritual, forged a traditional mystique of the Earth that is based not on the idea of being self-consciously close to it, but on a far subtler intuition: the idea that the Earth itself can only exist because it is breathed into being by human consciousness.
Peter Coe is easily the least charismatic of the various Egyptian high priests we've seen during the course of these films, and Martin Kosleck as his henchman seems uninterested in the proceedings; Kurt Katch, then, is saddled with a ridiculous accent as the man who discovers the newly reincarnated Princess Ananka: the latter, in the form of Virginia Christine (later a much-used character actress) gets her most substantial 'role' and, indeed, the sequence of her resurrection from the swamps is a highlight not only of this film but the entire series.
I know that Burke's books are violent, lyrical, and especially in the case of 'In The Electric Mist', can be like the Cajun swamps he writes about, full of things that are never fully explained.
The ridiculous "Primeval" came first, about a croc named Gustave (!) ruling the swamps in Burundi.
It's a low-budget, quickie B-movie - shot in the swamps of Jersey.
BLACK WATER, however, really resonated with the eeriness and fear that you can experience when you are alone in the mangroves (you guys call them swamps or bayous - but they're mangroves).
A routine mystery/thriller concerning a killer that lurks in the swamps.
By freak chance she watches a glimpse of a house which haunts her dream in a ecodocumentary about swamps.
Swamps that run for 150 miles along Lake Champlain?
Catholic whores, whipping, swamps, children in the whorehouses, racism, the accent, the voodoo, the attitude, the sexuality.
Since the beginning of time, he reigns over the swamps & rivers in the poorest regions of Burundi and he supposedly devoured over 300 people already.
Planning a jail break, she accompanies Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor and Jil Jarmyn into the swamps of Louisiana's bayou country where the gems are hidden.
Beautiful views of the state swamps as well as fascinating scenes of the oil rig that inhabits them dominates the film which depicts the adventures of a Cajun boy on a boat fishing and hunting alligators with his pet raccoon.
the story is told through the eyes of a young boy who wanders around the louisiana swamps on his canoe.
runs through lakes and swamps (without sinking!!) and crashes through trucks parked across the tracks (without exploding !!!).
Indeed, many of the natural scenery where this film was shot take us to mountains, valleys and rivers or swamps that western folklore effaced in the Sixties and Seventies.
The Myth of “Eurabia”LONDON – There is a powerful narrative today about how many young European Muslims are susceptible to terrorism, how Islam leads to radicalization, and how Muslims, because of their creed, choose to live in ghettos and therefore create swamps that breed terrorists.
So when the Japanese emerged from the jungle and mangrove swamps of the Malay Peninsula in the north, the British were powerless to stop them.