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... colors startle . Curiously marbled leaves could be laboratory cultures of delicate tissues magnified a thousandfold by the lens of light . The crimson veins of a caladium leaf , magnified by dew Exuberant coastal fol throwing patterned ...
... colors startle . Curiously marbled leaves could be laboratory cultures of delicate tissues magnified a thousandfold by the lens of light . The crimson veins of a caladium leaf , magnified by dew Exuberant coastal fol throwing patterned ...
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... Stand before one of the great faces limned in the colors of the earth , russet , black , and ocher . To some of those who view it , the stylized lines and one -. 48 of his existence. It is the same reverberating question ...
... Stand before one of the great faces limned in the colors of the earth , russet , black , and ocher . To some of those who view it , the stylized lines and one -. 48 of his existence. It is the same reverberating question ...
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