Lichens: Indicator of Good Air Quality
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Squamous lichen, an intermediate of crustose and foliose types.
La Mesa Eco Park, QC
Lichens*
and mold life at its barest,
On weathered rocks and ancient trunks,
or some forgotten crests,
And cliffs that would through seasons howl
or sleep or cry like the eagle,
Or the chameleon that mimics sunrise
and sunset in colors divine.
Bless you, pioneer of protolife,
pathfinder of the moss and vine:
You who guide the lost in the darkness
of the forest with compass,
Where towards the declining North side
calmly lays your biomass;
Where rise the trees, roost the eagle
and fireflies, the seasons endless.
Here you lie in peace under boughs
once bare and lifeless. - avr
Sunshine on Raindrops by AV Rotor, Megabooks 2000
You are a landscape artist, you paint
and mold life at its barest,
On weathered rocks and ancient trunks,
or some forgotten crests,
And cliffs that would through seasons howl
or sleep or cry like the eagle,
Or the chameleon that mimics sunrise
and sunset in colors divine.
Bless you, pioneer of protolife,
pathfinder of the moss and vine:
You who guide the lost in the darkness
of the forest with compass,
Where towards the declining North side
calmly lays your biomass;
Where rise the trees, roost the eagle
and fireflies, the seasons endless.
Here you lie in peace under boughs
once bare and lifeless. - avr
Sunshine on Raindrops by AV Rotor, Megabooks 2000
* Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. The dominant partner is the fungus, which gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics, from its thallus shape to its fruiting bodies. About Lichens - USDA Forest Service
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