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Essay by dojoty • March 4, 2013 • Essay • 692 Words (3 Pages) • 1,048 Views
Tiny Jungle
Close your eyes and imagine that you're in a green house, jam packed with hundreds of flowers and plants, like you're in a rainforest exploring new species. All you can see is a sea of colors; The blues, more vibrant than the clearest skies you've ever seen, colliding with the greens, pure as the horizons of Ireland , along with the hues of colors that blend with one another, creating a unique, breath taking collage by nature itself. You can see the light filtering unto the room from all directions, reflecting off of the wet leaves, heating up the climate bringing liveliness to the environment. The ground, consisting of a mulch and dirt mixture, is shady and cool enough to balance out the heat pouring down from the green roof, so you can see the humidity floating amongst the cooler air.
As you slip further into the empowering ambiance of the wild life, you realize the air is thickening and the aura that the plants are giving off have become more embraced towards you, as if they were trying to interact with and discover more of you as well. Their thick and textured bodies feel solid, yet fragile, with hairs that are soft like silk and a substance seeping from them that runs off of their stems like drops of sweat as they reach out and brush your skin. The humidity, full and over powering as if it were 120 degrees in the tropical rainforest, coats your skin with a thick, dense layer of moisture.
You can smell the aroma of what seems to be a blend of roses and some sort of mustard like scent floating through the air, clogging your nostrils with its powerful spores, yet, changing dramatically with every step toward a new breed of plant into a mysteriously inviting new blend of scents. Each new scent brings out a new perspective of what's standing before you, you may smell something beautiful and think wonders of what is surrounding you or you just might smell something perfuse and be turned away instantaneously, either way the aromas will make the moment none the less.
There are birds singing their songs in choir, flying amongst the masses and showering the forest with their beautiful and wondrous melodies. While the insects are buzzing, zipping past your ears in swarms, tickling your nose and attempting to fly inside of any exposed crevices, the crickets are chirping away,
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