They made their way to a shady spot under a mulberry tree at the edge of a field and sat down.

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At the edge of his tree line is a forbidding 4-foot hole in the ground.

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Spots of yellow-white sun trembled in brown tree-shadows on the lake-edge.

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Pakdin lives in a tree-shaded hut not far from the water's edge.

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On the edge of the site is the Survivor Elm, a tree damaged but not destroyed in the blast.

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They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.

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Plants fight for space: ponga (silver tree fern), cabbage trees, manuka (tea tree), and pohutukawa (a coastal evergreen tree), which cling to the land at the sea's edge.

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The desert here is a ruler-edge sheet of mute brown dirt, studded with the occasional spiky yucca tree, and goes on and on and on, much in the same interminable way as a pub bore.

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We are just beginning to see the results of the long and successful effort to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public use in the river-front gardens and promenades of Lower Manhattan and the tree- and rose-lined bicycle and running paths that have transformed the water's edge on West Street.

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It starts as an exit off the Dumbarton Bridge, which cuts across the southern edge of San Francisco Bay, runs though rough-and-tumble East Palo Alto, then tree-lined stretches dotted with multimillion-dollar mansions, and eventually hits, as the name implies, the Stanford campus.

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