Beneath the feet of dancing flowers

Spent some of today at an event in Riddle's Court, just off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh ...

... it was great to see the building back in use as a meeting venue; and you can read a lot more on the background to the building, and current plans for its future, via this link.

The day's venue reminded me of the famous Patrick Geddes quote:

"How many people think twice about a leaf? Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live."

- and this famous Robert Frost poem, as taken from the pictured 1991 collection:


In Hardwood Groves

The same leaves over and over again!
They fall from giving shade above
To make one texture of faded brown
And fit the earth like a leather glove.

Before the leaves can mount again
To fill the trees with another shade,
They must go down past things coming up.
They must go down into the dark decayed.

They must be pierced by flowers and put
Beneath the feet of dancing flowers.
However it is in some other world
I know that this is way in ours.

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Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

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