Sentences with phrase «underbrush of»

It is also the safe road, the road originally cut through the underbrush of conflicting claims by Alfred Barr.
Willingly the viewer enters a surreal purgatory «Mind, Body & Soul,» trapped in the underbrush of Villalongo's world.
And yet, navigating through the underbrush of fine print involved in pet insurance may have put you off.
The accumulated underbrush of bad debts doesn't keep building up until the eventual fire is impossible to control.
Guy and Howey look at «dark matter,» the underbrush of the Amazon store that never shows up on even category lists in the online retailer's pages.
These shortcuts may stir her nostalgia for those long, straight, rectilinear, provincial roads, also something Umberto Saba told her then, so she sweeps away the underbrush of her memory now, memories for which she can not say whether they even sank to the threshold of memory, or are still in the present, set aside, stored, tucked away.
He works to remove a lot of underbrush of misunderstanding and moralizing of the text, seeking to listen to it on its own terms.
Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

Not exact matches

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.
However, today's cartoon, coupled with Valerie's exhortation on April 7, has flushed me out of the underbrush.
«By helping to clear away the «structural underbrush» of contemporary racism,» Levine and Harmon inform us, The Death of an American Jewish Community has «tried to foster understanding and, ultimately, new means of resolution.»
We have arrived at a point where we desperately need the aid of some rudimentary principles (let's call them «postulates») that enable us to cut through the underbrush, refocus mission and move forward.
The men hunted barking deer at night with the aid of powerful torches, locating the barking deer by the thrashing or rustle in the underbrush, then slowly approaching within shooting range, shining the torch towards the deer to blind it, and shooting it.
Then, in the hush, sudden movement: moorhens, thrushes, green imperial pigeons, pheasant - tailed jacana, all colourful birds squealing out of the underbrush as we approached.
Thursday, hundreds of officers walked arms» length apart, searching in a grid pattern through an area two miles east of the prison near the town of Cadyville.The search took law enforcement through mixed terrain including muddy areas, woods and thick underbrush.
Back then, few scientists had caught more than a fleeting glimpse of a forest elephant in the wild; they extrapolated populations by counting dung piles along paths the creatures carved through the underbrush.
One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.
More than 120 million years ago, while giant dinosaurs crashed through the forests in fearsome combat, a quieter drama unfolded in the Cretaceous underbrush: some lineage of hairy, diminutive creatures stopped laying eggs and gave birth to live young.
That species, which some researchers consider a «native invader,» is spreading in areas of forest underbrush where deer are abundant.
In particular, it has a long cochlear duct, a canal in the inner ear associated with the ability to hear the kind of low - frequency sounds that its vegetarian prey would have made as they crept through the underbrush.
This roughhewn master of survival now talks and moves with offhand elegance and ardor as he guides the two Munro sisters, Alice (Jodhi May) and Cora (Madeleine Stowe), through the enchanting and bloody mysteries of the Upper Hudson Valley wilderness, where a cougar casually peers out from the underbrush, and vicious assassins lie in wait.
This Acura isn't about driving excitement or clearing a trail through the underbrush - it's focused more on getting you and your loved ones safely from point A to point B with style, grace, and a heaping helping of high tech features.
In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right — no option of four - by - fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented.
A breeze rustled the underbrush and a pair of bullfinches flew up.
Listening to the panel members from the traditional publishing industry talk, I thought of dinosaurs shuffling through the underbrush in some cretaceous forest, looking up at the sky when a bright shiny thing comes barrelling through the atmosphere.
Though most snake bites are reported at the end of summer, typical spring cleaning in the yard such as clearing leaves and underbrush can unintentionally disturb venomous snakes that come out as early as April.
Forest: The woods are alive with ticks hiding in the underbrush as well as the tips of tall grasses and weeds just waiting for a host to brush by.
The American Kennel Association says this about the breed: «Medium sized and bred to cover all terrain encountered by the walking hunter, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon has been called the «4 - wheel drive of hunting dogs» as he will enter briars or underbrush without hesitation.
Certain breeds of working dog like the German Shorthaired Pointer have long been subjected to tail docking because a long tail posed a potential hazard — the dog could be seized by the tail in a fight or the tail could be injured while the dog chases its quarry through the underbrush.
Your Miniature Schnauzer is a wire haired dog, the hallmark of a dog that would normally work in underbrush, or other abrasive environments that would require this type of protection.
We'd love to think that our cats experience life in a continual state of carefree bliss, simply satisfied by sunbeams and adventures in the underbrush... but they don't.
During the hike, try to aim for soft terrain and stay clear of dense underbrush and sharp rocks since these can damage paws.
If you're around a dog long enough, you no doubt have seen that so much of what they do is instinctual, whether they are aware of it or not... We believe that pawing and spinning before lying down come from their ancestors having to flatten underbrush in order to make a comfortable bed.
A long, low, substantial dog, the Clumber Spaniels heavy brow, deep chest, straight forequarters, powerful hindquarters, massive bone, and large feet combine to give it the power and endurance to move through dense underbrush in pursuit of game.
He stalks insects in the underbrush, leaps mounds of pachysandra and bares his teeth at the savage world.
One of the reasons many JRTs have docked tails, even today, is that such practice prevents various injuries and infections that they might gain moving through the thick underbrush, underground or during the struggle with other animals.
We used a remote camera and were lucking to capture some still images of the pair and also an interesting video clip of the male looking very nervous and then suddenly darting into the underbrush.
In a final gesture, symbolic of the community leaving Redwood Creek Nursery, the circle of stumps under the buckeye were rolled away into the underbrush, to return to a more natural setting, and seeds of wild cucumber, blue wild rye, and red alder were scattered in the clearing.
The bulk of the 52 - acre property is undeveloped forest, part of the Tongass National Forest, where the dense growth and mossy underbrush makes it hard to explore by foot.
Time to drive back to Ponta Delgada by driving down through the North coast of the mountain, having a stop at «Caldeira Velha», a beautiful forest covered with giant ferns and underbrush, two pools, one with a waterfall and the other, thermal, at temperatures of 39cº / 102f.
He fed papaya rinds to the iguanas, watched armadillos nose through the underbrush and families of ring - tailed pizotes (coatis) steal cat food from bowls on the porch while the cat looked on impassively.
«About two years ago, we've set out to journey the forests of FEIST and we're still making our way through the underbrush.
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Looking off of our deck at the great woods, unexplained mounds of dirt amongst the juniper trees and pockets of brilliant sunlight winding their way through the underbrush.
Jockum Nordström simultaneously evokes a sense of nostalgia and unfamiliarity in Back to the Land (2008), which features three peculiar characters in a rural scene of underbrush, trees, and cloud formations.
Throughout the cases, works of jewelry selected from MAD's permanent collection are positioned to appear as though the pieces once belonged to the bodies that are disappearing in the underbrush.
They don't allow natural fires to run their course, which results in overgrowth and the massive build - up of underbrush.
In certain types of forests, low - intensity fires remove the underbrush every 5 to 30 years.
You had a deadly combination of a long drought which dried everything to a perfect kind of kindling, coupled with the abject stupidity of not allowing any preventative measures like controlled burns to rid the underbrush, or other various clearing measures.
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