"I have explored all these paths, which are more in number than your eyelashes," says the John Keats of Jane Campion's new movie, "Bright Star," as he escorts Fanny Brawne, the young woman he is about to fall in love with, through a sparse wood.
Since Central Asia, in general, and Kyrgyzstan, in particular, is characterized by sparse wood cover, the walnut-fruit forests represent a peculiar feature not just of the country but also of the whole region.
Along this gradient, we identified three main groups of wood-pastures: 1) sparse wood-pastures with mostly big trees; 2) dense wood-pastures composed of small trees, and 3) wood-pastures containing a wide range of tree ages.
The PCA showed a gradient from dense wood-pastures with high levels of regeneration (e.g., in Estonia) to sparse wood-pastures with large trees but a lack of regeneration (e.g., in Romania).
Picking our way through the sparse woods, we took a path hung with spider webs, littered with broken glass and bordered by beer cans.
Some stop to chat, taking a seat in a sparse wood-walled front room and learning a little about the area's history.
The types of land use in the map were categorized as paddy land, irrigated land/nonirrigated farmland, timber forest land, orchard land, sparse woods, bush, prairie and grassland, hilly/mountainous grassland, desert (desert, Gobi, cold desert), wetland, saline-alkali land, and bare land (12 ).
On Tuesday morning, the woods are sparse and still, reduced to their most basic elements: trees, rocks, terrain.
The things that impeded the escapees' capture dense woods, bad weather, sparse population, rugged terrain also impeded their flight.
"We make sure the woods are more sparse and not dense," said James Stewart, the head P.G.A. professional at Blue Hill.
In the end, those things that impeded their capture dense woods, bad weather, sparse population, rugged terrain also impeded their flight.
