Federico García Lorca once wrote: “Green, I love you green, green wind, green branches (…)”. As a hymn to the sublime splendor of the color green, this poet recognized its powerful presence in his verses.
Beyond a sublime dye, this color has as many shades as meanings. It is in the sad pallor of winter and the joyful life of spring. Throughout the world, greenery extends in different ways, and you are about to discover all its splendor.
The mental image of this color is present in leaves, foods, fruits, objects, huge forests, etc. We can see it everywhere. Although we pay little attention to it, its pleasant and relaxing form is omnipresent. It is in the smooth grass that lies under a blanket on a picnic, in the dark algae that remains deep in a sweet lake, and in the same way it framed the pale bodies of the most opulent characters of the Middle Ages.
Among the colors, green is the one that denotes opulence. A few centuries ago, wearing green meant that you enjoyed economic fluidity. At the same time, for some it was the color of misfortune, because it was used in the fluted glass bottles that kept medicines and other potions.
An endless green splendor
This color is as threatening as it is jovial. Fruits are green when they are not ready to eat, while in vegetables it is presented as an elixir of life and . Often this color is multifaceted. Its dyes change according to its use and natural expressions. In the midst of isolation due to the current pandemic, the powerful color of nature has become an intense need.
We all look for large fields and green leaves that remind us of freedom, that connection with the environment that we long for, and green has become a medicinal ointment for the soul and mind. It is there, in its richness of color, where we feel like queens and kings. We miss their presence so much that we look for the grass in the gardens, the plants at home or even the intense green tone of the trees.
Now, worn down in many ways by humans, nature protects a green intermittent that is hardly reborn. We believed that this color was a simple accompaniment to the chromatic rainbow of life, but later we understood – like García Lorca – that “green, I love you green”, in the branches, in the wind, in the food, in the fragrant humid soil, in the growth of flowers and in everything that allows us to savor their splendor.