Over the ensuing decades, Alma becomes a leading bryologist, combing through these teeming landscapes: "This was a stupefying kingdom.
The acts are tremendously variegated; in these 800 and more pages, human faces teem, landscapes and interiors are elegiacally documented, a thousand three-dimensional objects cast realistic shadows, time is phosphorescent, moods coagulate and dissolve.
For those who care about style but aren't exactly up on the latest designers, it can be difficult to navigate Berlin's teeming fashion landscape.
The answer lies in the cruciform arrangement of four vitrines that contains The Sum of All Evil, the most recent evolution in their teeming macabre landscapes featuring toy Nazis, centaurs and copulating plastic dinosaurs.
The general effect, curiously enough, is not unlike that of Iris Murdoch's very last novel, Jackson's Dilemma, in which teeming inner landscapes have been reduced to a series of dramatic and introverted sketches, while the stray beams of a still formidable intelligence pulse uncomfortably beneath.
It's a landscape teeming with contradictions.
You would, my father told me, be looking over a landscape teeming with animals.
In a culinary landscape teeming with art-directed burger joints and endless fancied-up takes on mac and cheese, maybe it's time to welcome a new kind of "fusion" cuisine: childhood fusion.
On a tour through a tropical landscape teeming with pepper and cardamom farms, rubber plantations, tea estates and wild elephants, Indian spice officials showed some voluntary changes they are pushing.
