Requiem to a Forest: "It's a dirge I hear, once your cheerful call."

Requiem to a Forest

Art Works and Verses 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." - avr

 "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 

On display at the Living with Nature Center, SVIS

"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." - avr  

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

Remains of a Forest Wildfire, glass painting AVR

"Remnants all - trees and their dependents;

  land now bare, exposed to the elements;

  wonder how Nature heals herself abandoned,

  now avowed by greedy man to be his own." - avr

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

Burnt Forest in Darkness, in acrylic AVR 

"Nothing's left but ash and memories

     of a once beautiful, lush forest;

 where have all the creatures gone,

     deprived of their abode and rest?" - 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

Courtesy of Pasalubong Center, LGU-SVIS

"Goodbye, dear forest,

 home of my ancestors,

 epitome of Creation;

 we'll meet again, I pray,

 in my new generation." - 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. ~