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  Before Man Fought Nature

Cleo Fellers Kocol
 

 

 
     After Bierstadt's  painting:
     "Giant Redwood Trees of California"

No palette-knife black and white,
clear-cut world of saw-dust
giants glaring disaster, but nature
glistening with
reverence.  Shying from
sound-bite society and
visionary abstractions,
Bierstadt's romanticized reality creates
wonder, tongue-cool waters
married to sun-streaked forest.
Redwood bark peels naturally;
boulders rise from ground known
by unshod feet.  A gentle breeze
rustles foliage, and the earth, in tune
with human life, smiles.  Now it weeps.

 


 

 

 

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