Sentences with phrase «of uncultivated»

Malaysia is converting forests into palm oil farms so rapidly that it's running out of uncultivated land.

It is now clear that the federal corn ethanol mandate has driven up food prices, strained agricultural markets, increased competition for arable land and promoted conversion of uncultivated land to grow crops.

The idea of the uncultivated native leaving a virgin land to be conquered is a false historical narrative that prevails until today.

For Wild Flower, Cain references the endurance of uncultivated plants and their propensity to thrive in the harshest environment.

The paper reports on the comparison of two culture - independent strategies for recovering bacterial genomes: single - amplified genomes and metagenome - assembled genomes, and its implication for in - depth analyses of uncultivated prokaryotic taxa.

We will put a particular emphasis on revealing the biological roles of uncultivated species.

The team started with data culled from a sample of uncultivated, native Kansas prairie collected at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in northeastern Kansas.

The group calculate that 4.1 to 6.9 million hectares of uncultivated land will have to be cleared to grow crops for biofuel and to feed the EU.

Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.

Not exact matches

Thomas Paine declared that, if it had not been for tyrants, «the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state, was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.»

We have left the highways of the town planners not for an uncultivated wilderness, but in favour of meandering in a rose garden, which is not without its own order and design.

The keeper of an olive grove would improve the output of his cultivated olive trees by cutting away unproductive branches and grafting shoots from uncultivated olive trees onto the stump.

Cotton Mather, who himself had no small reputation for learning in all areas, obviously assumed this in his «Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry» in 1726.93 His minister was first to cultivate «PIETY» — which is «CHRIST» formed in you; and Christ Living in you» — and fill his life with «Essays To Do Good»; second, to cultivate «that Learning and those Ingenuous and Mollifying Arts, which may distinguish you from the more Uncultivated Part of Mankind.»

Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.

Around the edges of south eastern towns, perfectly good agricultural land often remains uncultivated as a result of price distortions created by the Metropolitan Green Belt.

A majority of the bacterial sequences corresponded to uncultivated species and novel microorganisms.

To make matters worse, previously uncultivated areas — the habitats of pandas, antelopes and wolves — especially in China and western North America will come under increasing pressure from wine growers.

This view has identified new capabilities of cellulases and identified uncultivated bacteria involved in biomass deconstruction.

Wild or uncultivated plants provide about four times the fiber of commercial plants (13.3 grams of fiber per 100 grams versus 4.2 grams of fiber per 100 grams, respectively).4 Certainly, there are some benefits to switching from a standard Western diet to a paleo - type diet — highly processed foods, refined carbohydrates, fried foods, and fast foods are eliminated, and fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds are encouraged.

2.5 million years ago, the principal components of the Paleolithic diet were wild animal - sourced and uncultivated plant - sourced foods, such as lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, roots, eggs and nuts.

As cultivated people know (and, to their misfortune, uncultivated people do not), culture is above all a matter of orientation.

To be sure, there are vast acreages bordering the semiarid areas which never should have been applied to crop growing, at least until the uncultivated lands of the humid regions, already provided with natural and social facilities for a more comfortable existence, had been more fully utilized.

Sparsely populated and uncultivated, the Catlins Coast is a wilderness area where visitors can find some of New Zealand's rarest residents, whether in the temperate rainforest or along the rugged beaches.

These uncultivated patches, in the heart of the city, are spaces of freedom for weeds that arise without conditioning.

Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote of him, «He has that sort of dignity which belongs to savage and uncultivated nature; but what is most to be admired in him is the perfect correspondence which he observed between the subjects which he chose and the manner of treating them.

Furthermore, when previously uncultivated land, including tropical forests, is brought into cultivation, large amounts of carbon are released from the soil, worsening the carbon dioxide balance.

But worldwide, communities are banding together to save their local urban wild spaces, using a variety of tactics like outreach, events, guerilla gardening, and in the case of one Montreal collective, creating an interactive online map using open source tools, mapping the wild, uncultivated spaces of Montreal.

The grassland and wetlands of North America not only provide vital habitat for a host of wildlife, including migratory birds, but also a rich and resilient forage for livestock, and a significant carbon sink if left uncultivated.

Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters any lands under cultivation or enclosed by fence, belonging to, or occupied by, another, or who willfully enters upon uncultivated or unenclosed lands where signs forbidding trespass are displayed at intervals not less than three to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering the lands, is guilty of a public offense.