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All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Persistent
Absolutely
Grace
Land
Beauty
Happened
Matter

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