Given a choice between an exhibit of German Expressionist paintings and a hike up some soul-stirring hill, I'll take the thick brush strokes and green faces every time.

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During the three-hour climb up rocky switchbacks to the pass, we stomp through several steep spots blanketed in knee-deep snow and ice. (You really feel those 30 pounds shifting around on your back as you try to maintain your balance.) We're forced to detour around one switchback and shimmy up a slick, steep incline of green brush, holding on to plants for leverage--and praying for solid foot positions.

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Jobs has been a vegetarian for years but his enthusiasm for green may have taken on an extra dimension since his brush with cancer.

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As the sun came up, they began to hike through thick brush, picking up bitter mangoes along the way and stopping to eat green bananas.

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One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.

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Across the water, a small herd of elephants, two adults and a child, emerged from the brush, and closer to the canoe, a herd of water buffalo lay all but submerged in the bleary green waters, escaping the late morning sun.

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Moments later, Ace appears from the brush and drops what has to be one of the world's prettiest gamebirds--with its red, green and white plumage--right at Arnold's feet.

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