"There was a heavy smell of green life, growing and rotting; luminous fungi speckled trees nearly choked with vines; the waterfall sound grew louder." (p. 88)
A tri-sensory description of abundant life:
heavily scented;
green;
growing;
rotting;
fungi;
trees;
choking vines;
a torrent of life-giving water.
On this planet, birds, large or small, fill the ecological spaces occupied by mammals on Earth. There are feathered equivalents of seals and buffalo while woman ride domesticated orspers.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
FEATHERED analogs of Terrestrial seals and buffalo? That is one intriguing detail I've forgotten from my previous readings of VIRGIN PLANET!
Ad astra! Sea
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