说到绿色，就会自然联想到自然。拥抱绿色，最直接的方法就是走进大自然，拥抱自然中的郁郁葱葱。古人纵情山水，为的是意境；今人涉足山水，为的是健康以及绿色生活的理念。总领事摩根先生，也是为钟情于山水的游历家。在英国、日本、北京和粤港的山上，都留下了他攀登的脚步。他在本月的文章中，也有所提及。大家来看看，摩根先生对于登山等活动的感受吧：
我最近担心我会错过广州的这个夏天，也是我在这城市的最后一个夏季。夏季那么长，这份焦虑好似毫无道理。可是雨天不断，且我又久坐办公室，因而不免担心。去年此时，我在上班前都先在户外看会儿书，现在我七点刚过就出门工作，整个白天都在伏在案前。
天气晴朗时，我很享受一早骑车上班的路途，头顶上数之不尽的小鸟，可能是雨燕或短尾燕，时而盘旋时而俯冲，捕捉着虫子。
虽无法整日待在清新的户外，我最近倒是被安排参加了几次远足。我自己觉得有些拘束，不过，我的太太和女儿们都很乐在其中。
有天天气炽热，我，我太太和女儿艾米莉参加了广州外事办公室组织的从化农家植树游。短暂的劳作带来了满足感，不过更让我记忆犹新的是看到几只长尾小鸟，像是 燕子，它们在奶场筑了巢，正从半掩的门飞出去给雏鸟觅食。我们只看了几分钟，便被赶上大巴前往下一站。我自己倒是可以在那野外走走停停几个小时。
上周末我，我太太和女儿埃莉诺参加了东莞外事办公室组织的荔枝采摘。我们只有三十分钟的采摘时间，不过紧凑而有滋味。树上的果实温润，成熟而鲜美。果树在山丘上。我骨子里就爱登高。一把我放在坡上我就想向上爬，于是在荔枝园我便不住往上走，把采摘的人都抛在了身后。
即便年纪大了不像以前那么精力旺盛，我还是比家里人往往要走得远，爬得高。在日本度假时，为了消耗过剩的精力，我会五点前便起床出门，到九十点回来吃早餐，那时家里人也准备好出门了。这样的安排通常都没问题，除了偶尔。在孩子们还小的时候，有一次在静冈县的山里，我们和我岳母度过了一个紧张的周末。一开始便不顺利，我带儿子威廉出门散步，他却被水蛭咬了。我们折返后，伤口中的抗凝血剂使 得他还是不住流血。与此同时，埃莉诺把自己反锁在洗手间里，出不来。我们于是叫了酒店服务人员来拆锁。我岳母让我别再外出了，因为她觉得我可能在深山里迷路。此外，那里还有熊出没。我没有理会，黄昏前出发去爬一座山峰。那次没见到熊，不过威廉长大些后，我们在另一次散步时见到一只母熊带着两个幼子。而那次也确实没发生什么意外，只是我花了比预期多两个小时才回来，家里人都非常着急。
上个月爬得最尽兴的一次是在白云山。我还没遇到过熊，但是蝴蝶很美。三年爬白云山的经历带我发现了许多新路线。那里的空气比城里更干净清新，哪怕天气再热。夏日里，其他时候得在办公室的百叶窗后面工作，于是爬山变成了让人神清气爽，精力充沛的补给。
I have been worrying that I might miss out on summer in Guangzhou this year, my last in the city. It is an unreasonable anxiety as the season is so long but my worry has been stirred both by the number of rainy days and by the amount of time I am spending in the office. Instead of reading outside before work, as I did last year, I have been getting to work just after seven and spending all daylight hours at my desk.
On bright days I have enjoyed the early morning cycle ride to the office, in particular the first stretch along an avenue in Ersha island, with short-tailed birds like swifts or martins, too numerous to count, weaving and swooping above me to catch insects.
Instead of long days in the fresh air I have made do with occasional planned outings. Although I find them a little too regimented, they appeal to my wife and daughters.
On one blazing day my wife, my daughter Emily and I went on a trip organised by the Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office to a village in Conghua to plant trees. The short burst of exercise was fulfilling, but as memorable for me was seeing long tailed birds like swallows nesting in a dairy and flying out from under the half raised door to catch insects for the nestlings. We had only a few minutes to watch before being shepherded back onto a coach to move on to our next stop. I would have liked to stay and walk around the fields for hours.
Last weekend my wife, my daughter Eleanor and I went on trip organised by the Dongguan Foreign Affairs Office to pick lychees. We only had thirty minutes for picking but they were intensely enjoyable minutes. The fruit on the trees was warm, ripe and delicious. The trees were on a hill. I am by nature an ascending animal. Placed on a slope I want to climb it to the top, which I did briskly in the lychee park, leaving the pickers below me.
Although I am becoming less restless as I get older, I usually want to walk further and climb higher than my family. On holidays in Japan, I would deal with this excess of energy by getting up before five and returning for breakfast at nine or ten, by which time the rest of my family were ready to move. This normally worked fine, but occasionally not. We had one fraught weekend with my mother-in-law in the mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture when the children were very small. Things has started badly when I had taken my son William for a walk and he had been bitten by a leech. The anticoagulant in the bite meant that it would not stop bleeding when we got back. At the same time, Eleanor had locked herself in the lavatory and could not release the catch. We had to call the hotel management to remove the lock from the outside. My mother-in-law told me that I was not to go out again as the mountains were deep and I might get lost. Besides, there were bears. I ignored the instruction and set off before dawn to climb a peak. There were no bears this time, though William and I found ourselves close to a mother with two cubs on another walk when he was older. Indeed, nothing went wrong except that the walk took two hours longer than I had anticipated and I returned to find my family very anxious indeed.
My best climb last month was simply on Baiyun mountain. I have yet to come across bears there but the butterflies are impressive. After three years of visiting the mountain I still find routes that I have not visited before. The air is cleaner and fresher than in the middle of the city, even on the hottest days. It is restorative and invigorating, a consolation for other summer days spent working behind blinds in the office.
