An undiked delta river braids through many lagoons instead of holding one channel.

Evidence

On the map the Delta was bisected by the river, but in fact the river was nowhere and everywhere, for he could not decide which of a hundred green lagoons offered the most pleasant and least speedy path to the Gulf. So he traveled them all, and so did we. He divided and rejoined, he twisted and turned, he meandered in awesome jungles, he all but ran in circles, he dallied with lovely groves, he got lost and was glad of it, and so were we. For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 503

Categorization

• SEED: A natural metaphor for essay-making: rivers reluctant to lose their freedom, meandering as anti-instrumental method.