Puget Sound may not have inspired "The Green Cathedral," by Carl Hahn, but it seems to fit quite nicely.
"I know a green cathedral,
a shadowed forest shrine.
Where leaves in love join hands above
to arch your prayer and mine.
Within its cool depths sacred,
a priestly cedar sighs.
And the fir and pine
lift arms divine
unto the pure blue skies.
In my dear green cathedral
there is a flowered seat.
And choir loft in branched croft
where songs of bird hymn sweet.
And I like to dream at evening
when the stars its arches light.
That my Lord and God treads its hallowed sod
in the cool, calm peace of night."
Oddly enough, the emphasis on green as an Earthly colour in science fiction started before anyone actually knew what Earth looked like from a distance.
The colour of Earth is blue. And looking at our home from a distance, it becomes even more obvious that the name of our planet ought to be Ocean.
I'm not even sure that the most common colour of the land part of Earth is green. Deserts and mountains sure aren't, neither are the icecaps.
Gerard, I like how you think. We can lose the cynical intelligence but you, friend, better not lose that beautiful mind.
Posted by AbigailAdams at February 13, 2014 2:13 PMGerard, I like how you think. We can lose the cynical intelligence but you, friend, better not lose that beautiful mind.
Posted by AbigailAdams at February 13, 2014 2:17 PMGerard, I like how you think. We can lose the cynical intelligence but you, friend, better not lose that beautiful mind.
Posted by AbigailAdams at February 13, 2014 3:41 PMWhen I was twenty, I was excited to see The Grand Canyon. It was a geologist's dream, but I wanted the green. (With splashes of red of course )
Posted by grace at February 14, 2014 1:06 AMThis makes me think of Wallace Stevens' "One must have a mind of winter..." But with that Pacific Northwest green instead of snowman white. Very good. And thank you for always having a good place to visit and find wonderful things online.
Posted by Amy at February 14, 2014 8:12 PMGerard, you are most certainly a Fauvist author.
Most of the craftsmen today who are interested in green do declare it as a primary. They're wrong, of course. But, they insist that light containing color comes from beneath a computer screen. Silly ones! Copper silicate is green. Barium manganate is green. These are the primal greens. Possibly the first green was pre-dynastic malachite.
Green is as green does. You can take the high view of Earth, and declare it blue, or you can lay on the forest floor by the Hoh. Now, it is green. Gray green, olive green, chromium green, cobalt green. Light don't come into it; these colors are self serving.
Posted by Casey Klahn at April 30, 2017 7:08 PM