William Bartram "Like an Umbrella" (Travels; Part II, Chapter III)

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"This world, as a glorious apartment of the boundless palace of the Sovereign Creator, is furnished with an infinite variety of animated scenes, inexpressibly beautiful and pleasing, equally free to the inspection and enjoyment of all His creatures." - William Bartram

I can't quite remember who or what lead me to discover William Bartram's writings, but as soon as I did, he became one of my favorite nature writers. William Bartram was a botantist, artist, and nature writer that explored the southeastern United States around the time of the American Revolution (1773-1776). He was a scientist, creationist and Christian that gave glory to the Author for all the wonderful works he observed and documented in his book, Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida. 

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Click the photos below to be taken to blogs highlighting some of my favorite passages from Bartram's writings, illustrated with photographs from my own travels. 

William Bartram "This Incredible Boldness" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "Little Green Chameleon" (Travels, Part II, Chapter X)

William Bartram "Sarracenia" (Travels, Introduction)

William Bartram "Terrifying Screams of Owls" (Travels, Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "A Very Large and Terrible Creature" (Travels, Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "Floating Fields of Nymphea" (Travels; Part II, Chapter VI)

William Bartram "Clouds of vapour issuing from their wide nostrils" (Travels, Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "These Floating Islands" (Travels, Part II, Chapter III)

William Bartram "Where the Wandering Seminole Lives" (Part II, Chapter IV)

William Bartram "The Long Moss" (Travels, Part II, Chapter III)

William Bartram's Examination of Alligator Nests and Eggs (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "Easy to have walked across on their heads" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "His Rival Champion" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "Assiduous and Courageous" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "Some Sovereign Alligator" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "The Alligator Abounds"

William Bartram "Cypress Trees So Lofty" (Travels, Part II, Chapter III)

William Bartram "Heavy Distant Thunder" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "An Old Champion" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram Cypress Knees (Part II, Chapter III)

William Bartram "Borders of a New World" Travels, Part II, Chapter VI

William Bartram "Snake Birds" (Travels, Chapter II, Part V)

William Bartram "Nests of the Crocodile" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)

William Bartram "The Appearance of a Snake" (Travels Part II, Chapter V)