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Was this an innocent wanderer seeking forest solitude in a low key, secluded place to achieve, unimpeded, her full twelve-foot height? Here, the hogweed leans confrontation- ally toward the midmost tree, the delegate of the native forest. Buttressing this archetypical image, Eduard Leonhardi's Waldeinsamkeit (1859) imagines the forest as rugged and unified through rich browns and greens that differ in hue but are similar in value, that is, their tonal lightness or darkness. [Extracted from the article] |
