In the Time of Trees

For over 20 years, Magnum Photographer Stuart Franklin has been traveling the world exploring man's relationship with trees

Poland
"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

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