Word: pined
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...Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location to erect it. Crawford chooses a gully at the confluence of three trails near a favorite watering spot. His crew toils for a day under a blistering sun erecting the 10-ft.-high cage, securing it with iron stanchions and braces of lodgepole pine, and camouflaging its sides with sage and chimisa bush...
Describing nature, though, is ground the Mailers concede without contest to the Whites. The real question is: Can an author--can E.B. White--deal with big things in small writing? Big things--violence, love, sex, alienation. Little things--fawns, pine trees, letters that arrive in the mail. The latter are the province of those who read Elements of Style, the former the stuff of most who ignore it. How can you talk baout nuclear war and omit needless words...
...farmhouse, and a sign that says, in the same quaint letters that mark Wadsworth House, or Massachusetts Hall, "Harvard University Forest." You expect a desk, with an old man to check bursar's cards on the way in and to make sure no one takes pine cones when they leave...
...repeated often enough that it may be true. If so, it seems a good sign. And it helps explain why, in the middle of the Harvard University Forest, there are stone walls, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards beside what are now trails, under what are now pine trees. New England stone walls are marvelously precise, considering. The rocks fit so snugly that a hundred mortarless years have done nothing to displace them. As a reminder of the forest reclaiming the field, they are in one sense eerie. But the thought that others have lived and worked here...
...land has grown out now, and the placid Concord is hidden. There are, however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...