For millennia man has been changing the landscape, hacking and burning forests and ploughing up grasslands.
Plaid Cymru AM, Llyr Huws Griffiths, accused health managers of "ploughing on regardless" with the proposals.
They are responsible for patching up, rebuilding, stripe-painting, putting up signs and, most winters, ploughing snow.
Ploughing fields opens up organic matter to oxidation and the release of nitrogen held in the soils.
That Regional Co-operation Council in Sarajevo has been patiently ploughing through a mass of dull, necessary work.
"Most routes have been salted three times over night with snow ploughing necessary on many routes, " they said.
After that Matthew expects to keep ploughing his own field - without signing to any big record label.
I've just got to keep ploughing on at it until my opportunity prevails.
Hosting an Olympics means not only ploughing money into stadiums and velodromes, but supporting elite athletes, which costs big money.
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Munster responded with their only touchdown, Coughlan ploughing over on the end of a five-metre scrum for his first provincial try.
More than 80, 000 women worked the land, driving tractors, threshing, ploughing, tree-felling, hedging and ditching as part of the Women's Land Army.
He visited Long Bow often, admiring the new cement mill and the coking plant and ploughing his own savings into local projects.
They can, for example, tax the foreign earnings of commodity producers, ploughing the proceeds into a sovereign-wealth fund that invests in foreign assets.
Messrs Gates and Ballmer could also have chosen to put their money where their rhetoric is, by ploughing it back into research and innovation.
In this regard regulators are ploughing the same furrow as before.
This would force a hiring freeze and the furloughing of permanent staff, as well as delay spring openings of the park to save money on costly snow-ploughing operations.
''Abandoned cars that are sticking out too far in the street are making snow ploughing difficult in some areas and in some cases making ploughing impossible.
The Briton will share the back row with Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel, who did not take part in qualifying after ploughing into the wall during final practice.
They have been ploughing more and more into the system as a proportion of their resources at the expense of other areas such as leisure centres and libraries.
As well as hitting the turning car, he hit Geraldine Downy before ploughing into the terraced house, knocking down the two-storey extension and causing damage running "into five figures".
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No-till, practised more in America than in Britain, means growing crops without ploughing fields, and leads to many-fold increases in bird population and a range of other environmental benefits.
The traditional Japan Inc model of global expansion is to spend decades ploughing profits generated in a protected home market into loss-making operations abroad while building global market share.
Yes, it is true that one farmer ploughing up another 500 acres of Nebraska does indeed change the supply of wheat and thus the prices of wheat around the globe.
Now those fads are regarded with (rueful) nostalgia, and Americans are ploughing their money into real estate, with expectations of recouping a modest 20% or so a year on their investment.
Biggar added a conversion to extend Ospreys's lead but Edinburgh rallied and were unlucky not to add a try through David Denton, who knocked-on after ploughing through a couple of tackles.
Clearing land to plant food for biofuel releases the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) through ploughing and can involve deforestation, which reduces the "carbon sinks" - the trees that absorb CO2.
All organic crop rotations contain three to four years of no ploughing because grass leys use the sun's energy to fix nitrogen for subsequent crops in place of oil-based artificial fertiliser.
Ploughing, and some fertilisers can help farmers reduce plants' uptake of the dangerous elements, and binding agents can be added to animal feed to reduce their uptake from the gut, he added.
But it also took a big risk by ploughing half of its free cash flow into financial services, betting that returns from this growing business would justify the increase in its balance-sheet leverage.
Australian fly-half James converted from the touchline to restore Clermont's 10-point lead at the break, only for Wasps to hit back straight from the restart, with prop Payne ploughing over for a converted try.
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