Again, a SHC was prepared using soil structure, subsurface compaction, aggregate stability, status of ground cover, soil smell, soil pH, color, organic matter content, drainage capacity, diversity of micro-life, earthworm contents, infiltration rate, soil aeration, crop coverage and leaf color.
Skunks have terrible eyesight and live their lives low to the ground, smelling, smelling and being startled.
"There are multiple green aspects in what we do," says Baillie. "Not having to make holes in the ground, smelt metals and dump electronic waste is definitely part of our mission".
I walk a few steps with Jean-Louis on one side of the square (with its hideous monument to the dead), bare ground, the smell of rain, the sticks.
Some of this writing - the snails edging across the grass, the constant richness of colours, "blood-crimson rosebuds on a moss-green ground", the smell and taste of food and drink, sexual desire and its satisfaction - is Byatt at her best, but sometimes, it becomes almost too vivid, too real to be real.
J. L. Austin has a nice supporting example in Sense and Sensibilia, using the fact that 'seeing that' is factive: if no pig is in sight, I might accumulate evidence that one lives in a given place: buckets of pig food, pig-like marks on the ground, the smell, etc.
You need dedicated, smart, qualified people on the ground to smell it out and fix it.
Teaching a rat to scratch the ground upon smelling explosives costs around €6,000 $$8,200), which is only a third of what it costs to train a dog, according to APOPO, a Belgian NGO that runs such a programme.
Highway dust and grit waft over the shelter grounds, which smell of diesel fumes and old concrete.
