Even though the expansive environments you will explore are dotted with buildings and natural effects such as trees, lakes and rocks, the overall feel is somewhat sparse.

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He swung it around, he stabbed trees and rocks, he whacked branches and relieved them of their snowy burden.

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For surely woods, trees, and rocks produce the echo that man desires to hear.

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He scrambled down toward the remains of the bridge, grabbing onto rocks and trees on the way down.

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Lagafuaina's area had a few falling rocks and trees from the quake but is too high up to be affected by the tsunami, he said.

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In nature, they are "epiphytes, " attaching themselves to rocks and trees.

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" Indeed, Beethoven's letters are filled with declarations of the importance of nature in his life, such as one from 1810: "How delighted I will be to ramble for awhile through the bushes, woods, under trees, through grass, and around rocks.

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Once the world was complete, these supernatural forces morphed into rocks, trees, ponds and even the stars, which have become sacred in Aboriginal lore.

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There were rocks everywhere, and scorpions and tarantulas and rattlesnakes, and vultures and no trees and not much water, and skinny dogs and donkeys, and ugly bad guys with guns and bullet vests who rode laughing into town to drink and shoot off their pistols and rifles, as if it were the Fourth of July, driving their horses all over town like dirt bikes on desert dunes.

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Demonic spirits are said to lurk all around, with landmarks and prominent natural objects their favoured hiding places - crossroads, graveyards, rivers, large rocks, particular trees.

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