It was the summer of 1983 that I got lost into the dark forest with four of my friends. ... That hot summer the five of us went looking for that mystic pond in the dark forest everybody talked about but no one could ever find. ... It was dawn, and the sky was covered with white, light pink and purple clouds. ... In some places the big rocks seemed to be colored by the same pinky light of the sun. ... I kept thinking that maybe just maybe that was Camelot, lost inside a pond in the middle of a dark forest. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Is there sound in the world and if a tree falls in the forest and there is no body around does it actually make a noise? ... The argument of the fallen tree in the forest only discusses the air waves; sound on the other hand is referred to as something physically heard. ... Colour is one or any mixture of the constituents into which light is separated in a rainbow. ... In nature, a rainbow is white light that is broken apart by the moisture in the air (www.askjeeves.com {colour}). ... He also thought colour was explained by the frequencies of wave lengths (light waves). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first depends more on light, and follows the sky. ... Viewed from a hilltop, it reflects the color of the sky, but near at hand it is of a yellowish tint next to the shore where you can see the sand, then a light green (235) Thoreau states that the colors of the water are different at different angles and can even be different from the same point of view. ... In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set around with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. ... It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School