Sentences with phrase «prairies where»

Ironically, it wasn't the mountain roads Magnus found most arduous, but the open prairies where winds «drained so much out of each rider.»

Although desirable in our formal lawns, KGB is much too abundant in our prairies where it outcompetes native species for food and sunlight.

Being land locked in Toronto my spirit yearns for the open skies of the Canadian prairies where woodlands mingled with grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see.

Plato, for example, calls the religious holiday an anapausa, a breathing spell.16 We see it in children's play where a new space and time are set apart for the duration of the play experience — the back yard becoming a jungle or the Western prairie where the Indians and the cowboys are fighting.

Rather, Wilder describes it as bound up with creative resourcefulness: The homesteader constantly innovated on the prairie where nothing but dirt and sky were readily available.

On the prairie, Caroline does not admonish her children to stop bickering or pick up toys, but she tells them repeatedly, as a motif running throughout the series, «that they must never be afraid» and «they must be cheerful» — breathtaking advice on the prairie where there is much to fear and plenty that is grim.

The story opens in 1871, as Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) welcomes his wife (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and young son to the American prairie where he has worked for seven years.

They rode out on the high prairie where they slowed the horses to a walk and the stars swarmed around them out of the blackness.

Air was, it seemed, blowing for miles Over the scorching prairie where the Agatha Christie statue was buried.

I grew up on the Canadian prairie where there are four distinct seasons.

Not exact matches

If there is one region where Harper's successor had no great need for provincial reinforcements it is the Prairies in general, and Alberta in particular.

Nonetheless, Canadians trying to imagine how a broad economic downturn could play out should pay attention to what's happening on the Prairies, where high house prices, soaring personal debt levels and an unexpected wave of job losses proved to be a toxic mix.

Located in the Texas Hill Country, where blackland prairies roll into beautiful hills, Texas State's roughly 38,000 students choose from 97 bachelor's, 88 master's and 12 doctoral degree programs.

Jackson returned to Kansas, where during the past 30 or so years he has worked to develop an agriculture modeled on the prairie ecosystem and based on perennial polycultures rather than the prevalent annual monocultures.

Our source for bison products comes from northern Wisconsin where the animals are grazed on prairie grass with NO chemicals, hormones, or grains - EVER!

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!

But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in its preferred habitat.

So, if you can stand the cold winters, the prairies just might be the place where you land your next job in the biotech industry.

Between 10 - 20 people in the United States are infected each year from flea or rodent bites, mainly in the rural southwest where prairie dogs sometimes carry the bacterium.

It grows particularly well on the prairies, where cool nights and hot days allow it to develop its unique fatty acid profile.

In naturally occurring conditions, buffalo grazed in western Kansas but not in eastern Kansas where the yields of prairie grasses were larger per acre.

Much of the land has been repurposed for agriculture, but there are preserves where prairie grass and flowers have been planted to resemble the original.

MarketWatch: There's just plain old «prairie dogging» on other dating sites where members just constantly troll other people's profiles.

While hunting in the Texan prairie Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) sees an injured dog in the distance, and investigating where it came from leads him to find the remains of a drug deal gone bad.

Unfolding in his signature long takes — the opener is a candidate for shot of the year — the film ventures to the driver's single - room home in a windswept prairie, where he and his daughter subsist on potatoes and wait out a storm of apocalyptic proportions.

Set in the Dakota Territory of 1879, where survival is already a challenge, Petty brings a starkly unglamorized sensibility to life and mortality on the Dakota prairie: it opens with a boy come a courting to a farmgirl only to discover a massacre and what appears to be the abduction of the girl.

Our idea of escape was an order of fries at the snack bar of the Western Riviera — a cross-shaped turquoise swimming pool slapped across the prairie like an SOS sign to God — and then the insouciant promise of the library, where you could lose yourself for hours in sanctioned daydreams.

It's a pedestrian prairie this year, with not much «skyline» where the big houses» pavilions should be.

When we hear the word «frontier,» our thoughts often turn to the wild, untamed West, full of wagon trains, cattle drives and little houses on the prairie, where rugged men and women eked out a meager existence in their search for open space, gold or simply a new life.

He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road coming down out of the Kiowa country to the north passed through the westernmost section of the ranch and you could see the faint trace of it bearing south over the low prairie that lay between the north and middle forks of the Concho River.

Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota's western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he's headed.

Waterton Wildlife Weekend — End Of September Waterton Lakes National Park is where multiple ecosystems converge and where the mountains meet the prairies in a stunning visual collision.

The species prefers areas such as prairie regions with sandy loam soils where it can dig more easily for its prey.

You could visit the Hungarian Puszta, one of Europe's largest expanses of protected prairie, and a UNESCO World Heritage site where Hungarian grey cattle, stud horses, Racka sheep with spiral - shaped horns and buffalo herds graze on open pastures.

Step over the dramatic up - lit stone bridge into a world of pure indulgence where you will be treated to therapies based on the pioneering research of the Swiss - based Laboratories la prairie, a world leader in skin care.

Ask about ranger - led walks through emerald - green Fern Canyon, or where to see majestic (and big) Roosevelt elk graze in grassy prairies.

The first edition of the library was installed as a permanent artwork in the restored prairie at the College of DuPage in September 2017, where students assisted in a three - day process of firing the charcoal kiln, burying the books and re-seeding the prairie, while also learning about the endangered prairie ecosystem and impacts of climate change.

Throughout his life, the Canadian painter William Perehudoff maintained a close connection with the prairie of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he grew up and established his studio.

Biography: Throughout his life, the Canadian painter William Perehudoff maintained a close connection with the prairie of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he grew up and established his studio.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

I am from the prairies, where irrigation has changed the land drastically more greener than it was 100 years ago.

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

(Diverse prairie systems also provide this as well as bird movements and other natural phenomenon but trees and forests, the natural habitat where most humans live, are unparalleled in this regard.

We plow fields and plant crops where there was nothing but a grassy prairie.

Here, the context was sufficient to supply the officer with the «something more»: three men in an empty, improperly licensed truck making a run across the prairies at midnight on a highway where the truck was not entitled to be.

Colin is from the Prairies, where he grew up on a mixed grain and livestock farm in Saskatchewan.

They are subject to prairie tornadoes, especially on the western side of the town where on a clear night you can see lightning hundreds of miles away — a pure magical sight.

Now I've created an offshoot to the photoblog where I come inside and show people our lives on the Illinois prairie.