The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete · Chapter 237Of the Herbs of the Field

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Of the plants which take a shadow from the plants which spring among them, those which are on this side [in front] of the shadow have the stems lighted up on a background of shadow, and the plants on which the shadows fall have their stems dark on a light background; that is on the background beyond the shadow.