Silent Running
Silent Running the 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Bruce Dern,
featured three lovable robots...Huey, Dewey, and Louie. they were the forest rangers of tomorrow.
The story is of a futuristic earth, where forests and other plant life no longer exist.
The remaining forest are domed enclosures floating in space.
"On this first day of a new century we humbly
beg forgiveness and dedicate these last forests
of our once beautiful nation to the hope that
they will one day return and grace our foul earth.
Until that day may God bless these gardens and
the brave men who care for them."
Why Be Green?
Freeman Lowell: It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth...
and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in
- you could go to sleep in. And there were blue skies, and there was fresh air... and there
were things growing all over the place, not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions
of miles out in to space.
"Poor Louie, God bless him... he's not with us anymore"
Tear jerking words by Freeman Lowell, Bruce Dern, as he is explaining to Huey and Dewey of Louie's fate.