No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. T…

John Steinbeck
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No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.105, Penguin
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