Sentence examples for forest roof from inspiring English sources

We evolved in the forest roof to collect fruit and berries, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that this skill set hasn't served us well in understanding the nature of existence.

If there's some distinctive documentary import and salient detail in Kalashnikov's depiction of Russian road life, it's in sequences showing cars driving on roads surrounded (and nearly broiled) by forest fires, roofs blowing off or tumbling down, yellow ooze filling a street.

Urban green space, such as parks, forests, green roofs, streams, and community gardens, provides critical ecosystem services.

Mr. DeCock and his former neighbor Sam Bassett, a photographer who was the most recent inhabitant of the pyramid and who tended its wild outdoor forest, used the roof as a photographic backdrop for a series of images shot at dusk over the course of a year, which they called "The Magic Hour".

Like the huge roof forest, also razed, that had grown outside the slate-roofed "pyramid" apartment behind him — planted, perhaps, by the filmmaker Shirley Clarke, who lived in the pyramid for decades — Mr. DeCock's garden was collateral damage in the war that had been going on between the hotel's management and its unique tenant body since the ouster of the longtime manager Stanley Bard in 2007.

Thomas Balsley, a New York-based landscape designer, believes his recent project, a half-acre pine tree forest on the roof of the luxurious 101 Warren in TriBeCa, creates "an ethereal escape" for the building's residents.

Since arriving, Gladwell has installed a green roof – a forest of sedum atop the house that keeps energy bills low in all seasons, he says.

'But the indigenous forest has its own roof, so wind and oxygen are reduced and we don't see the fires that have devastated the surrounding countryside.' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.

Urban forests and green roofs can aid in reducing urban heat island effects (Takebayashi and Moriyama 2007).

In the cavernous attic space between the ceiling vaults and the peaked roof is a forest of wooden trusses and beams, some of them 150 years old.

A 12,000-square-foot tropical forest exhibit deploys a radical roof venting system and geothermal tubes for passive cooling in a $7.5 million glasshouse.