cyberbotanist:

The Secret of NIMH uses a variety of plant-related tropes to establish the areas of its miniature world. Agricultural machinery, sunset tones, and grasses create a Midwestern Gothic vibe both nostalgic and foreboding, while rose bushes are portrayed as infinite spirals of gnarled and thorny branches, and the prosperous rat sanctum falls within a ray of sunlight illuminating a riot of flowers. The movie’s aesthetic is often beautiful, though its approach is less realist than I think really behooves a movie exploring the magic of small plant-related spaces (it’s no Arrietty, for instance).