秋葉之聲： foliage, verdant, concrete canyon, fall foliage seasons/tours , fall break. the rustles of leaves in the breeze, and capture the distinctive susurrations of several species

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Daily Shouts Fall Foliage: A Guided Meditation Take a deep breath as you imagine boarding the foliage tour bus. By Colin Nissan

Motorists along the western flank of the Capital Beltway in Virginia this month have enjoyed one of the more spectacular fall foliage seasons in recent memory. It is likely to be their last.
Construction has begun in earnest on four high-occupancy toll lanes from the Springfield interchange to just north of the Dulles Toll Road. And residents and drivers alike, local officials say, should prepare for a stark transformation of the Beltway from leafy thoroughfare to concrete canyon.

How trees are talking to you and how to listen to them

Thomas Hardy wrote that people could identify a tree by its susurration - the sound of leaves in the wind.

In Radio 4's The Susurrations of Trees, producer Julian May and writer Bob Gilbert, author of 'Ghost Trees' share their fascination of the rustles of leaves in the breeze, and capture the distinctive susurrations of several species: quivering poplars, aspens that sound like rain, rattling London planes, whispering elms, the hiss of the ash, whooshing pines and the strangely silent yew.

Here, Bob Gilbert shares his thoughts about the Susurrations of Trees.

 

I have always felt that our expressions of concern over the state of the natural world, necessary as they are, should be accompanied by something else; by a note of celebration, in fact. By which I mean an appreciation of all that we have around us, and a deeper enjoyment of it, wherever we happen to be. And that enjoyment, it seems to me, should make use of all our senses.

The dialogue offers the fullest literary description of the temenos of Aphrodite at Knidos: The floor of the court had not been doomed to sterility by a stone pavement, but on the contrary, it burst with fertility, as behooves Aphrodite: fruit trees with verdant foliage rose to prodigious heights, their limbs weaving a lofty vault.

You could make it alongside the tourists marveling at the Grecian splendor of the Pergamon Altar in the museum that bears its name, or beneath the roar of applause at the end of “Tannhäuser” at the Staatsoper, or while reading Brecht in the Tiergarten, the city’s verdant central park.

verdant
adjective LITERARY
covered with healthy green plants or grass:
Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.

fo・li・age

━━ n. ((集合的)) （一草木の）葉; 【建】葉飾り.

The noun foliage has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
Synonyms: leaf, leafage
If a plant does not receive enough water, the foliage will wither and turn brown
Meaning #2: (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
Synonym: foliation
這從古希臘到19世紀都盛行


GARDNER, S. English Gothic Foliage Sculpture
Cambridge, 1927. XV, 56 pp. text and 112 plts. Orig. cloth

[Alteration (influenced by Latin folium, leaf) of Middle English foilage, from Old French foillage, from foille, leaf. See foil².]