show them your shiny new oak floor. Of course‚ oak does take an exceptionally long time to re-grow‚ but you can still get natural oak floors without worrying that you are damaging the eco-system. Reclaimed wood Most oak forests in the UK and Europe have been depleted and new oak forests won’t be available for commercial use for another hundred years. This means that most oak available is reclaimed‚ that is wood recycled from another source. Any reclaimed wood that you buy has been previously used for
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The first time Dilys saw her wandering through the Forest‚ she sensed something blue. The girl’s aura was a deep hue of midnight blue—the colour of gloom. Dilys couldn’t quite understand how a little girl—somewhere between her childhood and adulthood‚ it seemed—could have been so melancholic‚ and she found that she wanted to help this girl‚ for her smile to become genuine‚ for her colour to lighten. The girl wore a small‚ dreamy smile on her face; Dilys‚ however‚ could see through it. On the inside
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The Great Bear Rain Forest consists of 64‚ 000 square kilometres of pure nature‚ in the coast of British Columbia. It is one of the rarest forest ecosystems on the plants‚ where trees grow to be over 1000 years old and partakes in being a home to a healthy population of grizzly bears and black bears rare white “Spirit” bears and wild salmon. In the Great Bear Rainforest the towering trees‚ fjords‚ islands‚ mountain slopes and estuaries support a rich diversity of plants and wildlife. Bears‚ wolves
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The Forest Tent Caterpillars latin name is Malacosoma disstria Hubner and is native to North America. They can be found through forests that contain hardwoods and are most prolific in the eastern parts. Trees that the Forest Tent Caterpillar attacks in New York are basswood‚ ash‚ sugar maple‚ alder‚ cherry‚ elm‚ apple‚ aspen‚ birch‚ and oaks. Trees that are not hosts for this pest are conifers‚ red maple‚ and sycamore. The New York State of Department of Environmental Conservation also says that
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The haze is a constant phenomenon faced by Malaysia and her neighbouring countries. The haze is basically pollution of atmosphere‚ which is clogged with pollutants and other substances from forest fires. The haze is a direct effect of forest fire in Kalimantan and other parts oaf Indonesia due to slash and burn method of farming. The Indonesian authorities appear to have no power to control farmers from practising such methods. The haze is further worsened by open burning practised by
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Mary Olivier‚ Pat Mora‚ and Lucille Clifton wrote the poem Sleeping in the Forest‚ Gold‚ The Earth is a Living Thing because they wanted to show us how they felt about the nature. The poem sleeping in the forest sends a message by telling us that she "thought the earth remembered me" witch gives us a message by saying she spends so much time in the forest she would think the earth remembered her. It tells us that because she spends so much time with the animals but they still runaway. The message
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technological benefits and keep an intimate relationships with it. However for a long time‚ human seek for the harmony between the human and the nature and a society. In the article “In the Forests of Gombe”‚ Jane Goodall talks about the relationship between people and nature. After her husband died‚ she goes to the forests of Gombe and stays with the chimpanzees to get understanding of human and nature. She mentions that human and nature need to keep a harmonic relationship which is difficult to achieve
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From the Forest to the Round Table “Who in time became one of the noblest of all the Knights of the Round Table...Some call him simply ‘The Fair Unknown’ ” (228). In King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table edited by Roger Lancelyn Green‚ Percivale is said to be the son of Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell. According to the tales he grew up isolated from the outside world in the forest of Wales with his mother. Percivale’s story ‚ like the majority of all heros’‚ can be broken down into a single
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The Big Forest By lena (marina) garcia Sometimes‚ hot and breezy summer days and sapphire blue skies as wide an ocean‚ can bring on childhood memories of long ago. For me‚ it’s memories of when I was a cub scout and proudly wore my dark blue uniform with the yellow bandana for a tie. I remember eating slices of bright red watermelon sprinkled with shiny black seeds; and mother and I lazily swinging in the cool of a front porch swing‚ sipping a glass of iced lemonade with lemon wedges that
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These woods‚ they’re not normal. Something is off about this place‚ and I can’t figure out what. I’ve lived in Washington for all my life‚ and I never thought the Tiger Mountain Forest would be this creepy. I live on my own‚ and there are things here that attack me. The only things that don’t hurt me are the voices‚ I don’t know where they come from‚ but they’ve been with me for years‚ even before I started living here. Life here isn’t the best‚ each day is a fight for food‚ for water‚ and for sanity
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