forest park

"Great woodland areas are the great life-giving elements of the city."
-City Planner E.H. Bennett, Greater Portland Plan

I've been heading up to my old haunts in Forest Park much as I can justify the time away from job applications and studying. Being away from the park for a while and then coming back to it always astonishes me. There is just so much green here, in so many different layers; coarse like hair here, soft and tendrilly there.

This inscription is on the back of a park bench up on Cumberland trail in the upper park. The first time I came upon this I remember being scandalized and delighted at once. I wish I knew who commissioned it.