Nature's Garden Mural Series

                  Nature's Garden Mural Series 

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 

Murals and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor 

 Caniaw, Ilocos Sur  
A make-believe spring may seem eternal to this child;

a living wall foretelling the future whether true
or dream. Art, be not proud, don't make it an archive,

for nothing compares the Nature's real view.

Grassland, Masbate
Why afraid of this plain landscape?

Does she sense the danger we grownups can't see? 
Simple landscape it may seem to us,
Empty, boundless and monotonous like the sea.  

Atop Mount Pulag, Benguet
Oh well, it's just a concrete wall, 

but where comes the light divine

that nourishes a beautiful garden
but of the lowly moss and vine?

Watchtower Ruin*, Santa, Ilocos Sur

Who says Gulliver is dead?

 Go to Lilliput and become a giant 

in Jonathan Swift's adventure.

Would you be as kind and loving?

(modified and composite)

Requiem to Six Species of Deer

Six heads of deer hanging on the wall.

A hunter's prize, an artist's on the other,

 A silent throng, a new generation.

Now, who is the fairest of them all?

Santa Paradise, Ilocos Sur
Where clouds meet the sea, how lovely and bright;
When you're young you're taught this way; 

You will love God and Nature throughout your life,

Though you may only once pass this way. 

Mount Makiling, Laguna

Trees, trees - but how scarce the big ones,

where once they were a stronghold;

Wake up the deity from her long, long sleep,

if she is truly mighty as we behold.   

Patapat Pass, Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte

The Return of the Hornbill, may be a documentary

and living part of our Natural History;

Search and count them if they make a population,

only then we've save the specie(s).   

Mount Pulag, Benguet
It matters not if its the highest or second in the country;
Reaching its summit unfolds a drama of awe and beauty;
Closer to heaven, if not part of it while we are on earth,
if only we pay respect and reverence to its sanctity. 

Tabon Cave, Palawan

Home of our ancestors, birthplace and tomb, as well,

For thousands of years in these caves in Palawan.

Cradle of civilization until man found a bigger world,

in Plato's Allegory - a bigger Tree under the sun. ~