Shelves lined every wall, the shelves well stocked with books, many leather bound, all looking quite undisturbed, like trompe l'oeil.
This was not your classic, swing-too-hard-peek-too-soon whiff, but rather a swing that went right under the ball, perching undisturbed, like an egg, in a little nestlike clump.
Johnny-jump-ups, the European wild pansy that has become naturalized in North America, will often establish itself permanently in places where it can grow undisturbed -- like under the fuel tank or in the crevices at the base of a stone wall.
The researchers are now looking for other long-term data sets in similarly undisturbed watersheds like the Upper Snake River, both to corroborate their findings and develop a predictive model of how mineralized watersheds might react to climate change.
But regardless of the underlying cause, our results suggest that diversity alone is not a clear indicator of ecosystem health or condition, particularly across gradients that include undisturbed habitats like Kingman.
But his most concentrated nature studies — though it is seldom easy to pin down exactly what they're depicting — go poetically to parts of the world undisturbed by humans (like the wildlife documentaries he loved and whose camera methods seemed to influence the way he framed movement onstage).
We drove to the town of Panacea, and followed dirt roads until there was nowhere else to go, a characteristically impenetrable forest, thick hammock on both sides of us that suddenly opened out onto a vast, undisturbed estuary, shaped like so many fingers poking into the continent, two big hands in rubbery shiny gloves.
It sits in his inner sanctum, where he likes to compose, undisturbed; or, rather, where he would compose, were it not for a nasty case of writer's block, compounded by failure of another kind, the poor lunk.
I had a vague sense that they were old, and a more vivid sense of their being rung every Sunday at one in the afternoon — an hour at which I particularly liked to be undisturbed by loud clanging noises.
I had a vague sense that they were old, and a more vivid sense of their being rung every Sunday at one in the afternoon an hour at which I particularly liked to be undisturbed by loud clanging noises.
Other writers will like long periods of undisturbed writing time, and dedicate their weekends to writing.
