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Here's one line about my fresh-water fishing lair: It was a little patch of paradise, surrounded by suburban sprawl.
James has had offers from several foreign companies to buy and develop the resort but has no intention of selling this little patch of paradise.
But her warm heart is always shielded by the shrewd eye she keeps for anyone who even thinks of ruining her patch of paradise.
Without the skyscrapers, she said, there may be more species, but Central Park, for example, is a "little patch of paradise in the middle of winter" for many species, even more than people see on the street or at feeders.
The sinister flip side of rural bliss is that you become fiercely protective of your patch of paradise in a way that you might not if you had only a few square feet of paved city garden.
Of course, if you're willing to spend the money and lots of it you can find your private patch of paradise at five-star beach resorts.
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When we think of Sids, we may be tempted to imagine small patches of paradise scattered with lightly populated fishing villages, unfettered by the demands of modernity.
"People live in these areas and create their own little patches of paradise, and part of that is the soundscape," Shepherd says.
In our attempt to turn our modest patch into a small piece of paradise, we spray weeds and pests into oblivion with an arsenal of pesticides, and fill flowerbeds to the brim with elixirs of growth.
The little collection of fruit-bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned.
Little by little, this benign patch of unspoiled paradise becomes colonised by burly men with cameras, scaffolding, walkie-talkies.
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