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In
Zamboanga City, the main tourist attraction is the
Pasonanca Park. Traversed by a gently rippling
stream, this park is the only one of its kind in
the country. It abounds with trees, flowering
plants, ferns, shrubs and 600 different species of
orchids.
There
is a treehouse nestling high in the branches of
one big tree where guests could pass the night and
hold communion with nature which, in the darkness,
could still be perceived in the gentle rustling of
the pine trees. Permission to use the treehouse,
which is for free, can be obtained at the Office
of the Mayor.
Mindanao
Governor John J. Pershing started the construction
of Pasonanca Park in 1912. He sent for a parksman
in the United States, once named Thomas Hanley, to
prepare the plan and direct its execution. The
park was completed under the administration of
Governor Frank W. Carpenter.
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At the base of the tree house has this marker a poem as
follows:
I think that I shall not see
A poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray,
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain,
Who intimately lives with rain
Poems are made by fools life me,
But only God can make a tree.
By:
Joyce Kilmer |
