I am lucky to live in the middle of the Lake Wales Ridge and have hiked over 2,000 miles in its wild places.

“I have traveled a good deal on the Lake Wales Ridge: and everywhere, in sandhills, and scrub, and swamps, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be persistent survivors in a thousand remarkable ways.”

Paraphrased and plagiarized from a quote by,
Henry David Thoreau, Walden