Back in 1992 I wrote this song because someone asked me to write a song for the "Save the Everglades" campaign at that time. I used a poem by the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC). This poem was taken from his most famous work "The Nature of Things", which happens to be the only complete work of art ever discovered thus far.
Needless to say the Everglades project never took off for me, the song and video (a different video than this) were never used or seen.
So since this year marks 30 years since this song was written I thought I would make a new video using the excellent "Everglades" photos of Clyde Butcher. He has a new book out on the "Everglades" that is for sale, g...