Where only a few years ago thick native forests filled the landscape, now all that stands between Las Lajitas and the Andes shimmering on the horizon are green pastures sprouting soya.
"The long-run supply curve for electricity is as flat as the Kansas horizon," declared green guru Amory Lovins in 1984.
As we pass through Sirdalen valley, successive waves of mountains, forested, lichen-covered or bare grey, recede in folds to the horizon, enveloping green V- and U-shaped valleys, farmland, plunging waterfalls, tranquil lakes and rushing rivers.
With a Six Nations title to defend, a top-three Test ranking to reclaim and a World Cup on the horizon, the green-shirted grandee of the second-row fraternity has no reason to think too far ahead.
I don't mean our seemingly inborn (and now faded) frontier instincts — a hunger to keep charging at the horizon, scouting greener pastures — but, rather, some implacable desire to be of nowhere, and indebted to nothing.
GREEN BAY WINS HORIZON No. 20 Green Bay missed 21 of its first 23 shots in the second half but still maintained a double-digit lead, beating visiting Loyola of Chicago, 54-38, in the Horizon League tournament championship game.
In the story, a girl and her grandmother spot a storm brewing on the green horizon.
The films were produced by Christopher Bobyn and the Berlin-based Green Horizon Films.
Occasionally the rail bed lifted us above the trees where we could see snow-topped mountains gleaming above the green horizon.
DRIVE south from Rondonopolis, and for mile after mile the flat tableland stretches away to the far horizon, a limitless green prairie carpeted with swelling crops.
