How they built the organization, which in the years since has become a significant, if still relatively frail, barricade against the erosion of the landscape at the hand of man, is largely a story of philanthropy: raising money in small donations from members and in larger amounts from a few wealthier individuals and foundations.
It has taken a while, but Tolkien and Northumberland enthusiast Phil Murray has discovered that the backdrop of the hobbits' Shire, gentle but with a hint of far more challenging landscapes close at hand, is actually just up the road from his home in Rothbury.
Why opt for Tuscany, Costa Brava, Greece or Turkey with such gorgeous landscapes so close at hand?
Assuming that the landscape does pass such a test and is thus valid, one can then continue to assess the utility of the landscape for the task at hand.
Begun in 1967, the series is an extended variation on a theme close at hand: the landscape Diebenkorn saw from his studio window in Santa Monica, Calif.
Defying the laws of nature and the terror of polar landscapes, Margot Datz, brushes and color at hand, glides through frigid breath to daily enter the timeless Old Whaling Church on Martha's Vineyard.
A rat? Hey, if you're looking for favorable omens in a hope-stripped landscape, you work with what's at hand, don't you?
If the problem at hand involves a complex fitness landscape, there may be different local minima.
Nell, a devotee of Pilgrim's Progress, and her grandfather seem to journey through a symbolic landscape, in which redemption and damnation are both near at hand.
With no Thesaurus at hand, the young man generally categorized landscapes as "beautiful" or "not beautiful" and people as "ordinary" or "peculiar".
