A Green World, For Nana

 

A gentle confluence of earth and sky. Even tigers like it.

One of the greatest gifts of GOD himself to man. 

Genesis 1:11-31 ERV

Then God said, “Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth.” And it happened. The earth grew grass and plants that made grain. And it grew trees that made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this was good.

It is good. We literally could not exist here on this planet without the skin of soil and its plants.  

There is even evidence that looking at green things is good for you. 

Green is good for you

In life, first there was our mother's arms. Then, father and the home environment. Then we stepped out of doors and saw the world.  It was green, if we are fortunate enough to have a lawn or garden. Some of the first things we saw were trees.

Some green things.  Avocados!  Lettuces! All the lovely green foods!  

Beautiful green stones.  Paints, fabrics. 

Reptiles! Butterflies! 

And if we are so inclined, green velvet!

...and not least!............
William Bronk

“A green world, a scene of green, deep / with light blues, the greens made deep / by those blues. One thinks how / in certain pictures, envied landscapes are seen /
(through a window, maybe) far behind the serene /
sitter’s face, the serene pose, as though/in some impossible mirror, face to back, / human serenity gazed at a green world / which gazed at this face.”