Sentences with phrase «land of mountains»

In the land of mountains, lakes, waterfalls and forests, stands the elegant Stanford Lake Lodge, a tribute to those seeking nature at its best... We offer self - catering Single and Double Storey Log Cabins, overlook...

It is a land of mountains, tropical jungles, rivers, lakes, over 200 islands called «cayes» and the second largest barrier reef in the world, in one of the most beautiful settings in the Western Caribbean.

Land of mountains, lakes, old growth forests and wilderness.

This is the Santa Ynez Valley, a wondrous land of mountains and valleys, vineyards, miniature livestock, exotic birds, old west storefronts, and even some windmills to tilt at...

It's a land of mountains and mines, and its residents are a strong, proud, and independently minded people.

Straddling Argentina and Chile, Patagonia is a picturesque land of mountain ranges and glacial fjords that sweeps across the southernmost portion of South America.

I like the heat) and prices on a par with London, perhaps the merits of visiting these sparsely populated lands of mountains, pine forests and unpolluted lakes far outweighed the apparent disadvantages.

Not exact matches

It targets recreational ranch land in the Rocky Mountains, buying rundown ranches in all - cash deals and bringing in a team of experts, CFI Global Fisheries Management, to rehabilitate the rivers and streams into thriving fisheries.

Despite the loyal, zombiefied Mountain by her side, she has found herself incapable of taking back control of her son, King Tommen, and King's Landing.

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village.

By this time, Intrawest owned not just the two mountains and their associated development lands but also much of Whistler's retail and restaurant base, which helped to offset the property slowdown.

Consumers» impression of Canada is a land of blue skies and beautiful mountains, says Sven Anders, an agricultural economist and associate professor at the University of Alberta.

The Trans Mountain expansion of Kinder Morgan Canada, majority owned by Houston - based Kinder Morgan (kmi), touches the lands of more than 100 aboriginal communities, some of which have launched legal challenges.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

He left in 2006 to become the executive director of the Mountain Conservation Trust, a tiny outfit in Jasper, where, says Keller, «land conservation moved at a glacial pace.»

In an Uncertain World, the Last Thing You Should Put On Hold is Your Retirement Dreams... Sharon and Wes Puckett live in a three - bedroom home on a 25 - acre parcel of land in the «perfect climate» mountains of Southern Costa Rica.

Sharon and Wes Puckett live in a three - bedroom home on a 25 - acre parcel of land in the «perfect climate» mountains of Southern Costa Rica.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The provincial government hired an independent appraiser in 2013 to determine the value of 14 publicly owned parcels of land in Coquitlam's Burke Mountain neighborhood.

Paramount owns 100 % of the Grassy Mountain Gold Project which consists of approximately 9,300 acres located on private and BLM land in Malheur County, Oregon.

As a result of the acquisition, Copper Mountain has now acquired 100 % of Altona's assets, which include A$ 30 million in cash, a permitted development project in Queensland, Australia, and a large mineral land tenure position in a highly - prospective area in Queensland.

Although it may be attractive to get to the «promised land» of passthrough taxation, it may kill you to cross that mountain.

The lack of available land will be difficult to overcome, given the region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the coastal mountains, the U.S. border and the Agricultural Land Reseland will be difficult to overcome, given the region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the coastal mountains, the U.S. border and the Agricultural Land ReseLand Reserve.

However, the modern return of the Jews to Zion («his mountain») requires rethinking the divine mission of dwelling in God's land.

A narrow farm separated the houses from the forest, and a cemetery occupied a piece of land part way up the mountain.

Over millions of years, what once was low - lying land become a mountain range.

Whereas land ethicists are systems - oriented, animal rightists are individual - oriented; whereas land ethicists are concerned with the stability, integrity, and beauty of ecosystems, animal rightists are concerned with suffering; whereas land ethicists are concerned with the fate of flora, rivers, and mountains, animal rightists emphasize fellow fauna.

Religion News Service: Religious groups vie for Internet domain names Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains.

The land heritage of our people is being seized by corporate interests which thoughtlessly tear the mountains for coal or overstimulate the plains for bumper harvests of corn and wheat.

Earthquakes are a necessary feature of earth that allow for mountains A.K.A. land.

Already the fund has been responsible for returning vast swaths of land to their natural state, in the USA and elsewhere and has largely been credited for ensuring the survival of the tiger, cheetah and mountain gorilla.

The site is buffered to the south by land slated for wetlands park development, with spectacular I views of the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the south and west.

«Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.»

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

All of my life I've been a passionate lover of our rich American land's variety: the lonely beauty of New England, the great chain of the Appalachians and the Green and White Mountains, the sweep of the prairies, the majesty of the Rockies, the unbelievable fecundity of the West Coast valleys.

On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all human beings that are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

The center displays letters from people, not at all given to superstition, who had taken rocks from the slopes of the mountain — only to sense later the displeasure of Pele at their having desecrated the land.

Then Abraham would not have been forgotten, nor would Mount Moriah, this mountain would then be mentioned, not like Ararat where the Ark landed, but would be spoken of as a consternation, because it was here that Abraham doubted.

Even closer to the experience of Jesus is that of Moses who was with the Lord for 40 days and nights during which time he neither ate nor drank but was taken to a high mountain and shown all the land as far as the eye could see (Deut.

But the Hemingway hero, whether in the gangster world or the Plaza de Toros or up in the Michigan forests or the Spanish mountains, always behaves; and his life is accordingly a thing of order and symmetry — the order of the clean, well - lighted place which it's his whole aim to create, in the midst of the Waste Land, the Great Nada.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

The Transfiguration, the preliminary appearance or epiphany of the Son of Man in glory, takes place not in Jerusalem — contrast Malachi 3:1 and other prophecies — but in a secret mountain fastness in the remote north, in Galilee, a land despised by men but graciously favored and chosen by God.

2 He said, «Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.»

One of the most important occasions of change in Israel's idea of Yahweh came when this primitive mountain god became the territorial deity of the land of Canaan.

'» (Judges 11:30 - 1, 34 - 5) No. 7: The Lord is speaking to Abraham in this story where God commands him to sacrifice his son: «Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt - offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.»

Moses had seen flames rain down on Mount Sinai, felt the quaking of the mountain (Exodus 19:18) and seen the ruach (wind) push up the seawaters so the people may escape on dry land (Exodus 15:8 - 10).

The farm also has a small experimental orchard and research plots for grain, dry land vegetables, berries, and root crops, and a beautiful home which he helped his father build with a stunning view of the Bears Paw Mountains.

While I live in mountain laden lands and it takes a road trip to get to the coast, I love the idea of having fresh seafood during the summer months.

This small Central American country squeezes mountains, jungles, rainforests and beaches on a narrow strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.