He spends his days weeding wetlands, pulling overgrown huckleberry bushes, planting an alder or hemlock tree, always seeking a balance of light and moisture, for the moss.
"Before long I was climbing through really dense, spiky gorse bushes, pulling myself up through branches; I could feel myself getting cut even more.
As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
Hazel walked the northern quadrant of town and, since it was a Saturday, there were a lot of folks out in their yards trimming bushes and pulling dandelions out of the ground with flowered canvas hands.
Critics say that the Bushes pulled rank, but there is no firm proof of this.
She gazed past me impassively, her face expressionless; her fingers were busily weaving some fibres that she'd pulled from the bushes.
In that approach, work crews pull up coca bushes by the roots, thus ensuring plants can't grow back as happens after exposure to glyphosate.
He stood before the Thunderbolt, an abandoned 1926 roller coaster that is literally being pulled apart by bushes and vines that have wrapped around the tracks like the tentacles of an octopus.
Though he was standing in front of a tiny island of working pumps, the gas station attendant, shyly and as tactfully as he could, was trying to tell us that we should, well, sort of just pull behind the bushes across the road, where the gasoline could be siphoned into the car.
To make the cubs appear to move, for instance, monofilaments were attached to and then pulled at small bushes in the background.
