stackyFACTSWhen you are a visionary impressionist, trivial things like local ecosystems simply do not apply to you. Claude Monet aggressively lobbied the local government to divert a branch of the Epte river purely so he could flood his property, create a private lily pond, and paint exactly what he wanted.
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