Instead of studying, say, a forest, the team looked at moss-covered rocks.

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Then the assailant fled down into the forest, through the wispy tangles of moss that hang from the oaks like a dragon's goatee.

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The open valley turns to a forest of tall fir trees, many hung with moss.

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Created by British florist McQueens, it will include "forest murmurs, " a woodland floor of peat moss, dusted with snow, with white hellebore (Christmas roses) underneath.

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Lying in your tent, listening to the rustles and chirps of the forest, you can almost hear an old bull elephants whishing his way between the moss-covered trunks and the woodcutters rising early for a campfire breakfast of sweet potatoes and coffee.

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