I drove around them and got lost in a forest of reinforced concrete stumps and construction cranes, wondering how Iceland's Ealing-sized population could afford it all.
I am writing to you from San Remo, from the house where the events in that novella took place — twenty years ago — and since then things have only changed in terms of quantity, in other words, our house is more and more surrounded by a horrible forest of reinforced concrete, and our family is always having to deal with some entrepreneur: this time to sell it for good.
A seascape, a forest, an expanse of concrete: these images, mundane in other circumstances, become through Elkins the inner worlds of men whom the state will destroy.
However, it is common to find specimens harboring mature and manipulative worms in atypical habitats surrounding the forest (e.g., areas made of concrete).
A glowing green disc hovers high in the sky at night, casting an eerie glow over a forest of minarets, cranes and concrete frames that seem to stretch endlessly into the dusty distance, like a vast field of dominoes.
The system's demise followed the development of pumper trucks that could generate the pressure necessary to reach the tops of most buildings even in the vertical concrete forest of New York.
Our cities are broke, they lay patches on top of patches of concrete, our forests cut down and sold to make newspapers just to tell us about traffic that we get stuck in.
Keeping the CCTV tower upright begins more than two hundred feet underground, with a vast forest of closely spaced reinforced-concrete piles, each of which is a hundred and sixty feet tall and approximately five feet in diameter.
Here is Pelican Bay state prison, an outpost of concrete and razor wire in a forest near California's border with Oregon.
Due to come into full force next year, the Green Deal has so far barely managed its own carbon output, already producing a forest of discussion papers but little by the way of concrete action.
This is not only unjust; it has also led to a relentless pouring of concrete that has given rise to "ghost cities"—half-empty forests of high-rise office and residential buildings that have sprung up around many cities.
