Pre-catastrophe America is only a mythic, not a historic, past: it was rumored to have been "a land of profusion, safe from human predators, snake-free, and welcoming beyond the hog and hominy of this raw place... a good climate, fertile soil, wholesome air and water".
These are the most abundant lianas on the island, and they promiscuously sprout shoots that root in the soil, sending up a profusion of new stems.
By all rights, Châteauneuf should be one of the most distinctive wines in the world, with a colorful history stretching back millenniums and a complex geology characterized by a profusion of soil types that include sand, limestone, gravel and the famous galets roulés, smooth rounded stones that are often featured in photographs of the region.
Flash flood, long and terrible monsoon, earthquake rock sliding or toppling, soil cave-in, and sudden profusion of snow melting are some of the elementals that precede landslide in a particular area.
Thousands of miles across the Pacific, Hawaii's volcanic soils have nourished an exotic profusion of endemic plants and animals.
Every year about a month after the first rains restore the dry crumbly earth to verdant life, mushrooms of every description -- from chanterelles under oaks to porcini beneath pines -- emerge in dripping profusion from the dank soil.
The lyric is a reference to the profusion of flowers that blossomed from the hideously enriched soil of concentration camps, and its poetically charged irony inspired him to think of choreographing a comparable collage of imagistic fragments.
Authority officials said the profusion of existing railroad equipment in that area and the sandy soil beneath the network of tracks had slowed the project.
Often the profusion of plant life is more related to heat and moisture than to soil quality, even though these climatic conditions intensify both chemical weathering and the rate of bacterial action that usually improve soil fertility.
Wild strawberries grow in profusion.
