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...Sound, one of the least appreciated qualities of a garden, is built into the sloping land around Shute House in Dorset, southern England....
...But these impressive distances pale against the immensity that Johnson contemplates as a theoretical physicist at LA’s University of Southern California....
...Mature trees grow a few inches from the walls of his house; they even take a bite into the shape of it — one wall has a V-shaped indentation to make room for a red oak....
.... $975,900 A three-bedroom/3,500 sq ft ranch in 42 acres of ponderosa pine forest. The ranch is less than an hour’s drive from Telluride airport....
...Their travels take them to the industrial wastelands of Camden, New Jersey, the Native American reservation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the stained coal fields of West Virginia, a colony of exploited fruit...
...Each piece is hand-carved from Swedish pine using a band saw and therefore unique....
...The story, an exotic blend of feudal princes and murderous, torturing mobsters in southern Morocco, still strikes a chord in Chaouen....
...The surrounding landscape is conventionally stunning – a cobalt blue bay, rustling pine trees, steep hillsides hacked by wind. The house itself is full of surprises....
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