Monday 19 March 2018

Yet Another Grass Equivalent

"The ground was low, wet, thickly covered with a soft and intensely green moss-like turf. It sparkled with a million water drops. Fog rolled and streamed, slowly breaking up as the sun climbed. The air was cool, and filled the nostrils with dampness. His tread muffled and upborne by the springy growth, his companions unspeaking and half blurred in the mist, Flandry moved through silence like a dream." (p. 120) (For full reference, see here.)

We often learn what other planets use for grass. (Scroll down.)

How many senses do we have here? Wet, soft, green, sparkling, coolness, dampness, silence.

Flandry and his companions walk to the Trees of Ranau. There are over a thousand enormous "Trees," growing a kilometer or more apart.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I think, to get some idea of the sheer size and scale of the Trees of Ranau, we have to imagine ONE of those Trees being at least as wide and tall as the Empire State Building in NYC. With its branches making it look proportionately even wider. Astonishing!

Sean