Requiem to a Forest (Article in Progress)

Requiem to a Forest

Art Works by Dr Abe V Rotor

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." 

-  John Muir, Naturalist

The Last of the Hornbills, wall mural at the author's residence

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 

"It's a dirge I hear, once your cheerful call,

its refrain drowned in silence in eerie air;

in the like of Vivaldi's music, if I recall,

seeing you on screen in an easy chair." - avr

"He who plants a tree loves others beside himself."

- Thomas Fuller

Sentry Eyes in the Woods, palette knife painting in acrylic AVR 

We are not alone, all eyes are upon us,

     spirits of Nature that we can't see;

with respect and humility, we must,

     and say, bari-bari, tabi-tabi.

 "Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time." — Anonymous Walk My World

Soil Erosion Aftermath, mounted tree saplings remains 

and rocks on nature painting as background AVR 

What Nature built for thousands of years,

from rocks onto a beautiful garden;

man's folly and lust reversed the process,

the garden today's but a lost Eden.  

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." — Kahlil Gibran

Remains of a Forest Wildfire, glass painting AVR

"In the woods we return to reason and faith." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Walk My World

Burnt Forest in Darkness, in acrylic AVR 

"Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves." 

— Tasneem Hameed

Charred Earth, art work in acrylic and cardboard AVR

"Requiem to our planet, a pessimist's view,

      a prophesy in its own time come true;

  indifference in the midst of the Good Life,

      its epilogue in suffering and strife." - avr

 "When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say... 'It is done.' People did not like it here." — Kurt Vonnegut

 Rainforest in its Glory, acrylic AVR

 

“To see a world in a grain of sand,

     And heaven in a wild flower;

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

     And Eternity in an hour.”

                        - William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

 "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn," - American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. ~