Sentences with phrase «like prairie»

I was planning on taking the opportunity to post a few of my favorites but they've scattered like prairie dogs.

Then the precautionary principle began to travel like a prairie fire.

Similar connections between fire, vegetation and climate are known for other large ecotones like the prairie - forest border in Central North America (Grimm 1983, 1984; Umbanhowar 2004).

The result is a scintillating starburst of vitality, a tornado of reds, yellows, blue - greys and browns that roll and twist across the widescreen canvas like a prairie storm, sweeping up cattle, people, and all previous notions of art in its path.

The silver in the staples shimmers in the bright light from above, like prairie grass swaying, but the effect of so many together suggests a kind of violence and interjection that is anything but glamorous or serene.

Trouble is growing like a prairie fire in 1883 Wyoming Territory.

My favorite has to be the first ruffle skirt — you look like a prairie princess in the best way possible.

He also said, «I like the prairie look.»

Like the prairie, we provide the deep yoga roots and optimal foundation for your own personal growth and transformation.

Hey, that sounds sort of like prairie voles and meadow voles.

The second is that hotter, drier conditions are preventing new seedlings from gaining a foothold, giving the advantage to more drought - resistant species like prairie grasses.

They found that meadow voles treated with gene therapy acted more like their prairie vole counterparts — they spent more time huddling near their original companion.

What was there in this wild and monstrous creed, which made it sweep like a prairie fire through the German people?

Precisely that portion of Ezekiel which she can not immediately imagine for herself — it can not be consigned to something like a prairie fire — is that which breaks into her consciousness and offers her new ways to apprehend her loneliness — and to apprehend both the absurdity and undeniability of her felt connection to John Ames.

The light seems to come in two varieties, silver or gold, and sometimes the glow makes it feel like the prairies are threatening to take over; the concrete will start falling away and luscious grasses will spring up everywhere, wildflowers and meadow as far as the eye can see.

Certainly, Vancouver and Toronto have seen significant price spikes, but other areas like the Prairies and Atlantic Canada have had fairly steady and predictable markets.»

Not exact matches

The protein, fibre and starch components from crops like lentils, peas and beans are a potential goldmine for the Prairies.

I was always going to grow up between the prairies and the Rockies; I was always going to feel like a baffling mix of pragmatism and mysticism; I was always going to show up in Tulsa ready to become who I really had wanted to be all along.

For a couple of prairie kids like me...

Oh, and the innumerable independent Bible churches, tangled out across the prairie like brambles: Through most of the nation's history, these endless divisions and revisions of Protestantism renounced one another and sermonized against one another.

The 8,300 - acre Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve protects unique ecosystems like rare oak savannah and woodlands, riparian wetlands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and bunchgrass prairie.

Recognized as one of the greater Temecula Valley's natural treasures, the Plateau features unique ecosystems like ancient Engelmann oak woodlands and rare bunchgrass prairie.

«They think it came across the prairies in covered wagons, similar to the Amish milk pie [a confection made of molasses, milk, and eggs that tastes like a custardy sugar cookie],» Haney said.

Bailey's early teammates included Darrell Green and Deion Sanders, who would come to be regarded as the Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on the Mount Rushmore of shutdown corners, even though the gap between their playing styles was as yawning as the South Dakota prairie: Green liked to get physical, while the ball - hawking, contact - averse Sanders excelled in space.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

Just like Ma and Pa on the prairie...

Tour working businesses like the Print Shop and Blacksmith Shop, attend class in a one - room schoolhouse, imagine life on the prairie in the Log House and visit the Martin Mitchell Mansion, a spectacular Victorian home built in 1883.

«It gives our residents an easily accessible feeling of what it feels like to be on a prairie.»

Centennial Park is a nature preserve in a prairie - like setting with a wooden walkway and an observation area.

Other park features, such as gazebo - like shelters, paths and prairie plantings, will be added in future years once the site plans are fit into the district's capital improvement plan, Collins said.

Their story sounded like the pioneer past — chopping wood with a dull axe, icy winds across the prairie.

The interpretive center is like an indoor natural playground where children can explore woodlands, flatwoods and prairies, which are all areas you can explore on the grounds!

Like those of the monogamous prairie vole, human oxytocin receptors are located in several dopamine - rich regions of the brain, suggesting that oxytocin is embedded in our reward circuitry.

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

«Our results predict that climate change could greatly impact the tallgrass prairie as we currently know it, reducing forage for cattle in the drier parts of grasslands, in places like Kansas,» Johnson said.

«However, prairie voles are unusual as they are socially monogamous and like drinking alcohol, so they are perfect to investigate the role of alcohol in relationships.»

Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»

A spidery sculpture called Broken Symmetry straddles the main entrance, power pylons shaped like the Greek letter pi march to the east, and a thousand acres of the surrounding campus is restored tallgrass prairie.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

RICHLAND, Wash. — The Kansas prairie seems like the very picture of beauty and simplicity, with undulating fields of corn and wheat stretching as far as the eye can see.

Like humans, animals console each other in times of distress: monkeys hug and kiss, and prairie voles groom each other.

For other events, like the drought in Brazil and flooding in the Canadian prairies, humans influenced the likelihood in other ways besides the greenhouse gases that continue to be emitted into the atmosphere.

Across the great American prairie, the skies were nearly black with Passenger Pigeons whose disappearance, like the buffalo's, was thought to be inconceivable.

Rhubarb is a tart and tangy summer staple in cooler prairie states like North Dakota; it's usually picked in June, before its red stalks become stringy and tough.

You'll pass through wide - open prairies, shady wooded areas, and several small towns with rest areas and amenities — like restaurants, bars, and shops — for tired, hungry riders.

There is something midwest prairie about the skirt, yet the top saves me from looking like my middle school Social Studies teacher who was from the midwest and wore full - length denim skirts and buttoned up shirts,...

I used to have a vintage blouse and he said I looked like a homeschooler from little house on the prairie.

If you'd like to shop the prairie trend or get a better idea of which pieces fall in line with the trend, I've rounded up my favorites below.

The «prairie» trend, as my boyfriend, likes to call it is an unavoidable one.

Face it: some days, trying to be slightly less boring is all we have, while on other days, we feel like we could make the study of prairie grasses fascinating to fifth - grade kids.