Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intens…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.104, University of Virginia Press
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.104, University of Virginia Press

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