The reed has also been invading undisturbed areas, including freshwater marshes where cattails or wild rice used to grow, suggesting that something other than typical human foul-ups are at work.
As humans foul up the earth, our avian neighbours hatch an ingenious plot.
You watched him to live in a world where you weren't alienated by polish and spin, where people were monstrously human, complicated, foul and furious in a way you understood.
TO ERR is human, but to foul things up completely takes a computer, or so the old saw goes.
The indignities that foul human relationships, at every level, from interpersonal to international, stem from a model of autonomous selfhood in which self is pitted against self.
No harm, no foul; human nature gets in the way.
They can also spread disease to domestic pigs and humans, and they foul watering holes.
Without overtly articulating the hope that lies in the natural world when the human prospect is fouled, Wray's calmly lyrical evocation of an Austrian mountainside gives voice to his belief that this is where health -- and perhaps even salvation -- lies for Voxlauer: "The sweet damp smell of the ponds rose up to him as he passed the standing water.
The only thing we need human umpires for are bouncing foul balls, foul tips and hit batters.
He rushed his human contraband into the foul, cramped darkness below deck and warned them not to come out.
This Alan Dunn cartoon, from 1962, anticipated the oft-quoted aphorism "To err is human, but to really foul up you need a computer".
