Hints and tips:
...He met South Carolina naturalist Maria Martin, who painted some of the flora and insects in The Birds of America, in 1831. Audubon’s journals show a conservationist’s mindset....
...Since Harris is widely seen as part of the progressive left, her sustained intervention on this theme could kill two birds with one stone. The same applies to illegal immigration....
...If you like the sea, say kite surfing, beachcombing, snorkelling, scuba or bird watching, you’d be happy too....
...We wade through waist-high grasses, scramble up dusty slopes and duck through thickets of banana palms....
...Huge boulders dot the space, dead birds fall unnervingly from the heights, “fog and filthy air” hang over the space — hell is murky indeed....
...In my experience of battling the lily beetle for 20 years or so, it’s best to leave the dirty work to birds, frogs, beetles and tiny wasps....
...The Wade Thompson Drill Hall inside the Park Avenue Armory is such a vast space that it can stand in for the outdoors....
...She doesn’t call it birdwatching — she calls it “looking at birds and then ticking them off in my bird book” — but that is what it is, and she’s been doing it for 20 years....
...When the earthquake struck, Ai was artistic consultant in the design team building the “Bird’s Nest” stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics (a role he subsequently repented, feeling compromised into an exercise...
...Since the sun was already high in the sky and the temperature close to thirty 30C, we agreed to do the interview outside (you may hear the odd squawking bird on the tape; the episode is out next Thursday...
...My jaw ached from the endless chewing — of birds, of bones, of snakes. I was helped with my rucksack, made payments in salt; I wrote, I photographed, I communicated with my hands....
...Bill suggests Arp give up his bed to his wife; he refuses and Taeuber-Arp, not uncheerfully, wades through the snow to Bill’s summer house, lights the stove, forgets to uncover the flue, and dies of carbon...
...Moreover, 70 per cent of all the birds now alive are poultry — mostly the chickens we eat....
...Davis draws on his botanical background to survey the astonishing “biological bounty” of a country with 26,000 native flowering plants and 1,932 bird species....
...Muezzins and birds greet the morning on Ilha de Moçambique....
...Congregations of other birds followed: curl-crested aracari, paradise tanagers, spangled cotingas, scarlet macaws....
...Rhys Ifans plays Atticus Finch in the UK premiere of To Kill a Mocking Bird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Harper Lee’s novel (Gielgud Theatre, London, from May 21)....
...When I am close to nature: trees, light, birds, animals. I feel that is a version of the sacred that we get to witness every day. What ambitions do you still have?...
...He is half right, and we wade in. These days, McChrystal runs a consultancy that he walks to each morning. There are ventures into scholarship at Yale....
...“Try to find seven species of grass,” says Jake Fiennes, as he wades through a knee-high expanse of flowering meadow on a mild summer morning....
...In “Nevermore”, a big bird — a parrot? a raven? a vulture?...
...Places to go to ground, and listen to the birds sing....
...The stadium’s Y252bn estimated cost was three times more than the centrepiece of London’s 2012 Olympics and five times that of the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing....
...The film has its nine-bird roast – the number of fowls stuffed inside each other at the climactic pub dinner – and eats it....
...Opened in 1871, Maison Bertaux is now run by sisters Michele and Tania Wade, and it retains an unchanging charm, epitomised by the copy of The Art of French Baking left on the lid of a piano that I have...
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