If you drive an SUV10 up a mountain, across a desert and into a crocodile infested swamp, it will get dirty, it will get scratched and it will most likely get totaled.
Wetlands are areas of marshy, swampy land, areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil for a large part of the year.
It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.