Places for lunch are laid at a long trestle table in the cool shade of a large holm oak.

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But he shined it where the sun was fairly bright already--and in some ways let Merrill back into the cool shade.

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Here, an abundance of free-flowing freshwater springs support hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees and date palms, which also shade and cool the valley's mudbrick villages as they rest concealed in the greenery.

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In the winter, when the sun is in the south, it shines on the entrance and heats things up in the summer, the sun moves to the north and the cave entrance is in the shade, keeping things inside cool.

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The farmhands and the manager waited in the cool of the banyans, planted years earlier to shade each of the tube wells.

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Trees and plants also play an important role to help induce airflow and provide shade on hotter days in courtyards, and water is a common element because it can help cool the air through evaporation and can have a calming effect on the space.

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