今天看到的一棵红杉树高92.6米,树龄1500年,直径6.6米,周长20.7米。这样的树在公园里比比皆是,可是给他们照相很难,顾得了脚就顾不了头,又想起 John Steinbeck 在1961年对红杉树的描写,以此结束今天的日记:“红杉树,一旦目睹,就会给你留下永久的印象。从未有人成功地画活或拍摄好过一棵红杉树。红杉给人的感觉不可言表。在它们面前,只能肃静和敬仰。不是因为它们难以置信的高大身躯,也不是因为它们在你眼前瞬间多变的色彩,不,它们跟我们以前见过的任何树都不一样,它们是从另一个时空来的使者!” (前面是我的大致译文,原文如下:“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
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