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“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
~Hermann Hesse
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I love how he's not showing off to anyone; he's just there existing like the rest of us. The blocking is well done; close to him, but not so close that the background suffers. The colours are masterfully chosen and applied; everything from the shape and contour of the rocks to the lighting looks utterly natural. The style is most comfortable, even classical; not razor-sharp, simply accurate, which I, for one, find refreshing.