An important and valuable ecosystem,
teeming with life,
home to a variety of birds, plants and insects.
Red-Winged Blackbird, female,with what looks like dinner in her beak.
What would the world be, once berefit
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds, and the wildness yet.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899)
