Word: verdant
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...Penan, preserve their landscape and their way of life from the cancer of all things modern: cash, Coca-Cola, television, but above all the mowing down of their native forest. If he had reached the summit he would have been confronted with glaring evidence of his failure: the verdant forest slashed by logging roads, a net of wounds bleeding orange mud, the animals largely gone. Manser had lived with the Penan in their jungle for six years. Then he became a noisy public advocate for the tribe, whom he considered the most peaceful people on earth. He said he would...
There's trouble in this verdant paradise 80 miles southwest of Crater Lake. The rules protecting Cascade-Siskiyou were put on hold last March, when new Interior Secretary Gale Norton delayed implementing management plans for 16 of 21 monuments that Clinton created or expanded, until matters ranging from boundary adjustments to vehicle use can be scrutinized by homeowners, local officials and the White House...
...become a Sopranos-scale phenomenon. It is often funny but never exactly fun; it's icier, more rarified and easier to admire than to love. It's also audacious, psychologically acute and beautifully shot (including TV's most gorgeous opening-credits sequence). And there's enough under its verdant green surface for Alan Ball to keep on digging...
...sprawling pasture he owns in the southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance...
...sprawling pasture he owns in the southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance...