Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes 25° N and 25° S. The remaining mangrove forest areas of the world in 2000 was 53,190 square miles (137,760 km²) spanning 118 countries and territories. The word is used in at least three senses: (1) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal,[page needed] for which the terms mangrove forest biome, mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, (2) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangrove swamp, and (3) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora. The term "mangrove" comes to English from Spanish (perhaps by way of Portuguese), and is of Caribbean origin, likely Taíno. It was earlier "mangrow" (from Portugues mangue or Spanish mangle), but this was corrupted via folk etymology influence of "grove".
When this road becomes too narrow for us both,
And the circle around us grows,
I keep my head above the water,
And turn my blood to stone...!
I am what I am,
Softened down and build to rust,
These machines we bury under clay,
Leave us rotting down, under ground,
And turn to dust!
Tie your hands around my neck,
And keep on holding 'till it bleeds,
The seed we just planted in our eyes,
Swept us both with our creed!
I am what I am,
Softened down and built to rust,
These machines we bury under clay,
Leave us rotting down, under ground,
And turn to dust!
The less we drain outselves,
The more we stain our hands,
And as I stir your surface,
My bones turn to sand.
The less we drain outselves,
The more we stain our hands,
And as I stir your surface,
My bones turn to sand.
I am what I am,
Softened down and built to rust,
These machines we bury under clay,
Leave us rotting down, under ground,