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Living on the Edge / A Delicate Balancing Act
By Tom Horton
Life loves the joints, intersections, overlaps and seams where land joins water, forest borders field, fields fall off to beaches and marshes, marshes to shallows, shallows to channels. In this essay from the recent book, "Chesapeake: Bay of Light," author and former Baltimore Sun columnist Tom Horton takes readers on a journey through these edges, and explains why they are special places upon which life itself depends.