Sentences with phrase «once lush landscape»

Then there's Cherrapunjee, India, once considered the wettest place on Earth — and now facing climbing temperatures and water shortages as the once lush landscape has been denuded.

Not exact matches

Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and his colleagues decided to get an idea of how such a community might look for the Midwest tallgrass prairies — once a highly productive, lush landscape now degraded thanks to intense farming.

The lush landscape of the beautiful Adelaide Hills was once the backdrop of Penny's childhood.

Once you're on the villa's grounds, lush landscaping and soft expanses of lawn make it feel like your own private idyll — though you can always watch the action on the golf course if you choose.

Once here, you'll be in awe of the attention to details such as the air - conditioned skywalk arching over West Beach Blvd to the beach club which provides a huge spa surrounded by a lush landscaped wraparound deck.

Merging traditional art genres of landscape, still life, portraiture, and botanical illustration, with kitsch and cultural clichés, the works at once conjure lush figments of the imagination, while meticulously rendering natural forms and landscapes.

Invoking the exquisite landscape paintings of the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.), he rendered in watercolors and pastels a series of nature scenes that were moody, lyrical and atmospheric, at once lush and spare.

A descendant of some of Argentina's earliest rugmakers, Kehayoglou draws on this heritage (her work at Frieze uses material from her family's factory) to create lush woven landscapes that are at once ancient and contemporary.

Sarah McCoin, who lives about a mile from the spill site, awoke to a community in shambles: homes and trees uprooted and a once - lush, green landscape turned to sludge.