UNP Coeds Visit the Living with Nature Center and San Vicente Botanical Garden

UNP Coeds Visit the Living with Nature Center

and San Vicente Botanical Garden

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Nature's art.  A driftwood in the shape of a blackbird, 

reminiscent of Noah's Ark story - an emissary he sent to check the flood but didn't return. He sent another, this time a dove, the universal symbol of peace today.

Catch the fish if you can on the wall, painted into a mural depicting 

the enigma of the bottom of the sea, for lack of knowledge seemingly 

lifeless, yet full of life and challenge to the scientist. 

    

 

Springs and waterfalls gently flowing open like curtain of a stage 

revealing a beautiful landscape, subject of poetry, music, myths 

and legends.  

 

Painted broken jars given a second life, function  to aesthetics, in our search 

for beauty and meaning of material things in our wastefulness and affluent 

living - brokenness after all is transformation, so with life.

  

 

Petrified wood of a primitive tree traces path of evolution and biodiversity;

 pyroclastic rock from Mt Pinatubo's 1991 eruption, link of past and 

present, reality and fantasy, nature and man. 

 

A dragon emerges from a broken jar transforms into a myth in like manner 

dragons once walked the earth; burial jar fragments of an indigenous culture 

destined to the museum and archive.   

 

UNP Coeds 5 trek the edge of the sea; frame a wall of cataract in 

make-believe mural painted by the author. ~