Quote from the film (source): The marsh knows all about death ... and doesn't necessarily define it as tragedy. Certainly not a sin. It understands that every creature does what it must to survive. And that sometimes, for prey to live ... its predator must die.
Quote from the book (source): The tide was coming in, and a wave flowed over his feet, taking with it hundreds of seashells back into the sea. Kya had been of this land and of this water; now they would take her back. Keep her secrets deep.
And then the gulls came. Seeing him there, they spiraled above his head. Calling. Calling.
As night fell, Tate walked back toward the shack. But when he reached the lagoon, he stopped under the deep canopy and watched hundreds of fireflies beckoning far into the dark reaches of the marsh. Way out yonder, where the crawdads sing.
The artist of the featured watercolors in the film is Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958).
P.S. Watercolor on top: 'Iris in Swamp' (around 1925-1935). Watercolor below: 'Lotus in the Great Blake Reserve' (around 1926-1936). Source: here.
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