Green Mansions

The graceful arboreal architecture of a beech wood is perhaps best seen in spring when the unfurling leaves are still soft and translucent. Here a mossy carpet covers the ground but elsewhere bluebells, yellow celandine, red campion and white stitchwort embroidered the woodland floor.

Nature, we know, first taught the architect to produce by long colonnades the illusion of distance; but the light-excluding roof prevents him from getting the same effect above. Here Nature is unapproachable with her green, airy canopy, a sun-impregnated cloud - cloud above cloud; and though the highest may be unreached by the eye, the beams yet filter through, illuming the wide spaces beneath - chamber succeeded by chamber, each with its own special lights and shadows.

The words of W.H.Hudson in his novel Green Mansions, published in 1904, an early ecological treatise as well as a jungle romance.
The story was later filmed with Audrey Hepburn as Rima the 'bird girl' heroine.
And Van Morrison wrote a song with the same title.

So, this is my submission for this week's Trees challenge, and also for the Movie Title theme. Two for the price of one!