By: Shannon Morrison
When I was 18 years old, recently graduated from high school and moving to Tampa from my family home in Brooksville, Florida, on the southern Nature Coast, I was ready to embrace and explore the world. The thinking and advocacy of Edward Abbey, John Muir, Rick Bass, and Dave Foreman had captured my heart and mind, but try as I could, I could only embrace their work from afar as I was a child of the Gulf Coast. I was a child of coastal marshes, spring-fed and tannin field rivers and Gulf landscapes. Then I read a book by Jack Rudloe.






