That data showed a human-created landscape, Fisher said of sister cities not only with houses, plazas and structures, but also features "much like an English garden, with orchards and house gardens, fields of crops, and roads and paths".
They are the countless house, field, and wood spirits of the nature myths.
Books like Andrew Harvey's radiant "Journey in Ladakh" had told me that I would see people living as they might have several centuries ago, in whitewashed houses amid fields of barley and wheat irrigated by glacial snowmelt.
Even now, during family gatherings, elder cousins recall the stories their grandfathers told – of houses, fields and graves they had to leave behind.
He eventually bought the property behind his house, a field of Norway maples in which Mr. Hartlage unleashed his inner park builder.
A second problem is the formal separation - through funding streams and organisational structures - of humanitarian activities into sectors (Pain and Levine 2012), which disconnects shelter and housing from other fields of action affecting the household (Crawford 2011).
Just in case the levees should fail, some plantation houses — among their fields of sugarcane, their long bright rows of oranges — were built on Indian burial mounds.
Sunny and lightly-taxed, its 98,000 inhabitants include many rich incomers, their fine houses tucked between fields of daffodils, new potatoes and honey-coloured Jersey cows.
It displays a grainy photograph of the village's "captured" Catholic church, in ruins.The fault lines of Chinese nationalism are visible in Zhujiahe, a cluster of brick houses surrounded by fields of maize.
Opulent houses rise from fields of rubble, built by sheiks, contractors and anyone else who benefited, illicitly or not, from the vast sums of American money that poured into Iraq during the war.
