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  • Despite the hard, brown earth that stretched for miles up and out of the valley, this was fertile ground.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • Despite the hard, brown earth that stretched for miles up and out of the valley, this was fertile ground.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • Despite the hard, brown earth that stretched for miles up and out of the valley, this was fertile ground.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • Despite the hard, brown earth that stretched for miles up and out of the valley, this was fertile ground.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • Part 2: 25…and I love wearing brown, and my whole house is decorated in brown earth tones.

    Blathering Lockdown: Day Two « Whatever 2008

  • Across the surface of a vast upland plateau stretched the plains of Maras, fallow fields of gold and russet, broken by hedgerows of agave and patches of brown earth where oxen and ploughmen had been.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Across the surface of a vast upland plateau stretched the plains of Maras, fallow fields of gold and russet, broken by hedgerows of agave and patches of brown earth where oxen and ploughmen had been.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • They were just expanses of hard, bare, brown earth, which turned to dust in the summer and to mud in the brief spring when the snow melted.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • They were just expanses of hard, bare, brown earth, which turned to dust in the summer and to mud in the brief spring when the snow melted.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • They were just expanses of hard, bare, brown earth, which turned to dust in the summer and to mud in the brief spring when the snow melted.

    WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

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