My dad was a doctor and my mother always told me how just after I was born, they passed by a 40-acre tract of woods, fields and ponds at the edge of my hometown.
In Shihokhor, a cluster of thatch-roofed homes at the edge of a vast tract of paddy fields, a crowd of children gathered to watch 16-year-old Deva Reidas get a tattoo emblazoned on his forearm with the name of his bride-to-be, Kalawati.
A special landscape feature of the eastern basin is the dongshuitian (literally, "winter water-storage field") system, in which large tracts of terraced fields are left fallow during the winter season and are used for the storage of water that is needed in the paddy fields in the spring; from the air they resemble a mosaic of broken mirrors.
(B) Within the Knersvlakte, large tracts of quartz fields with hypolithic growth occur next to soil surfaces, facilitating epedaphic growth of biological soil crusts.
In this theory, the initial mutagenesis happens not just in one cell but a whole tract of tissue – a "field".
The large tracts of deer field, guaranteed by the Qing, were owned by the tribes and their individual members.
He settled in a lovely tract of country - green fields, streams and wooded valleys beside the open moors.
Although the city proposed a plan to keep the water utility under local control, by selling a downtown tract of land called Bader Field for $100m, it seems highly unlikely the state will accept the proposal, or that the utility could even find a loan to finance the deal.
It was near Elysian Fields, a tract of land that stretched from the estate of Col. John Stevens north to Weehawken.
We studied the pollination success of the orchid Oncidium ascendens in two contrasting patches of dry tropical forest; a well-preserved deciduous forest and a tract of continuously disturbed agricultural-pastoral field landscape.
According to the Shanghai Daily newspaper, the developers who have turned a vast tract of the neighborhood into a field of rubble that will soon be covered by more hotels and offices agreed to save one old mansion, which was built in 1920 by the Qiu brothers, two paint industry tycoons.
