A whole bowl of craggy mountain peaks surrounds a green plateau, snow descending half way down their sides to a carpet of boreal forest and sub-alpine tundra.
The program starts and a bunch of kids in green blazers descend the stairs to sing a few songs.
That's just right for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where orotund figures by Henry Moore recline on soft, green hillsides descending to a reflecting lake.
Ushered into Charlie's baronial Beverly Hills residence, the actress Claire Bloom watched dumbstruck as the stunning Mrs. Chaplin, enveloped in dark green velvet, descended the stairs to greet her.
THE 10,000 politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and green activists descending on the Netherlands for a conference on global warming, which opens in The Hague on November 13th, will grapple with one of the most difficult issues facing the planet.
The two dashed rectangles show the satellite observations along the ascending path 543 (green) and descending path 193, swath 2 (red).
Across much of Fukushima's rolling green countryside they descend on homes like antibodies around a virus; men wielding low-tech tools against a very modern enemy, radiation.
Slick and Sam - Two green creatures that descend down the pyramid and revert cubes whose color has already been changed.
Over 5,000 scientists, bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians, journalists and green activists have descended on The Hague for a summit to discuss implementing the United Nations Kyoto treaty on climate change that was drawn up in 1997.
Now then, Sergio has a putt to regain all-square status with Phil Mickelson after Big Phil sent his birdie putt on one of those long trips around the green before finally descending the slope towards the hole.
