But the emotional pull of the area is apparent from the bunches of flowers lining the dry earth, and the golden plaques on stones, honouring individual victims.

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Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.

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These salt "flowers" are laid in the sun to dry for a year.

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When he isn't picking flowers in Nimla garden, a green oasis in the dry hills of eastern Afghanistan, he works in a hot, dusty parking lot in the city of Jalalabad.

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