evocata

Updated: August 16, 2026

The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire "et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus evocata" as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame; the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year's hay with the fresh life below.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden