Sentence examples for delicate soil from inspiring English sources

Their wool is soft, but their hooves, sharpened by life on jagged mountainsides, cut like razors through the delicate soil.

Off-road vehicles created extensive unauthorized trails in the park's deserts, with wheel marks dug into the delicate soil nearly a foot deep in some spots, Smith said.

Horses can also be used in areas where it is necessary to avoid vehicular disruption to delicate soil, such as nature reserves.

When watering, use a gentle sprayer or watering can rose to avoid disturbing the delicate soil and seedlings.

It assesses the likely impact on everything from delicate soils to raptor nests and birthing bighorn sheep.

We were warned by park rangers and the guidebooks not to stray from the road lest we upset the delicate cryptobiotic soil that is the building block of life in the desert.

This is delicate territory.

Curved Baseball Hat, the guy who grows corn and beans and who had delicate traces of soil in the lunulae of his fingernails, asked about an old gambling hall that used to be in town, and the reminiscences of the way Burlington used to be flowed – buildings that had been knocked down, women that were once beautiful and were now dead, fortunes made and vanished.

Here in the deepest, darkest corners, the roots are spreading, fine threads silvering the soil, a delicate macrame of pale tendrils and wet earth.

Farming means nurturing the interface of humanity and ecology, cherishing that delicate, complex and fragrant soil.

There is thus a delicate balance between vegetation and soil fertility, which may be upset by uncontrolled burning or overuse.