Sentence examples for off the forest from inspiring English sources

"Far off, the forest is visible; a shaky line of green from the swaying trees".

Some beams would reflect off the leaves in the canopy, and a smaller number would penetrate gaps in the foliage and reflect off the forest floor.

Turn left off the forest track and follow the rocky, and often muddy, firebreak through the pines and down to Lawson Park.

What you learn when you visit with a tiny Brazilian community that actually lives in, and off, the forest is a simple but crucial truth: To save an ecosystem of nature, you need an ecosystem of markets and governance.

This weekend, Brazil will mark the 25th anniversary of that murder, which far from killing off the forest conservation campaign has boosted its profile throughout the country and across the world, influencing a generation of conservationists and policymakers.

This sentence from "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, shows how taking time to find the right verb pays off: "The forest had nearly wicked from me that tiny germ of heat allotted to each person…." Wick is an evocative word that nicely gets across the essence of a more commonplace verb like sucked or drained.

17 February 2011: selling off the forests.

They are actually consulting on how to flog off the forests, not whether to sell off the forests.

Indigenous peoples who have lived in, and off, the forests for centuries are being evicted, sometimes forcibly, campaign groups say.

"This is about creating a massive opportunity to ensure that less tax is paid, which undermines the whole cause of selling off the forests.

"We have to move away from protection, where we close off the forests," said Bai-Mass M. Taal, a forestry expert at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi.