Don Conway whose species evolved on Earth grew up on Ishtar and is now on Mundomar:
"Amidst regimented trees and fields, green though they were, he missed Ishtar's wild red and gold..." (p. 160)
So it is possible for a human being to prefer red and gold to green.
We hark back to The Green Hills Of Earth of the original Future History. The stories are set not on Earth but in space where Rhysling sings of Earth.
For my imagining of The Green Fields Of Earth, see Sky, Stars And Song.
That is the end of the breakfast posts. There is business in the town centre on Saturday.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Many people tend to prefer the kind of surroundings they grew up with.
That Heinleinian GREEN HILLS OF EARTH is rather a misnomer. Much of the Earth's surface, seen from space, is more dun or brown in color.
Ad astra! Sean
There are substantial parts of Earth where green isn't all that common -- where yellow and ochre and gray are the common colors.
And of course 75% of the Earth's surface is water.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I should have mentioned how the dominant colors of Earth as seen from space would be the blue of the oceans and the white clouds.
Ad astra! Sean
Rhysling was describing not Earth as seen from space but Earth as he remembered it when he had been on it.
"We pray for one last landing
"On the globe that gave us birth.
"Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
"And the cool green hills of Earth."
Kaor, Paul!
That is a fair point, we should allow for poets using artistic license.
Ad astra! Sean
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