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By phone 520-429-7306
By email cdpepe@gmail.com
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About Green Fire
Our History
Green Fire originated with the words of Aldo Leopold from his book A Sand County Almanac. We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. From the time I first read those words many years ago they have remained lodged in my brain. The green fire is the wisdom of nature. It's knowing that all of us, humans, plants and animals, are connected and we need one another to survive. In 2002 I opened the Green Fire Bookshop in Tucson, Arizona. This wonderful little store specialized in books about nature, the southwest and Native Americana. The bookstore lasted 3 years but before closing we started hosting music events that became more and more successful. After a few big shows and some nice press the fire marshal paid us a visit and decided we had outgrown our space. Without the money to move we closed our doors.
Now I apply this same love of nature to Greenfire Environmental Services. I opened the bookstore because I love the outdoors. Now I work outside in nature everyday and would love to bring a little Green Fire into your world.
From greenfire customers
An Old Man’s Desert Spring
Spring is adolescence --
Everywhere I turn, I swear,
There is another feverish princess
Inviting my speechless stare.
Aflame, I silently declare
This is the pinnacle of beauty!
My life’s one and only love affair…
But, oh my wanton infidelity.
I no sooner commit to the desert marigold
With her long neck and bright open face
Than a leggy penstemon, tall and bold,
Turns me into a basket case.
Next, to my eye, a gently swaying fairy duster.
It is just not fair,
Such beauty, such deviltry astir
In the radiance of her tossing hair.
Then, I notice beguilingly standing there,
A curvatious globe mallow.
It’s almost too much to bear.
Can my love be this shallow?
But, enough of all this flowering --
Oh!… a Mexican primrose just gave her warm blush,
So ephemeral, so perishable in her promising,
… So innocent of time’s rush.
Robert Grieves