Perdita The baby abandoned on a wild hillside in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a king's daughter, naturally.
Adapting one of the "Dialogues with Leuco" by Cesare Pavese, Straub finds two men meeting by chance at a wild hillside; a traveller who has just arrived hears from Endymion, the mountain dweller and eternal dreamer with a hieratic, possessed voice, of his his wondrous and worshipful dream of the goddess, from which he didn't want to awaken.
Kōyō sets wild hillsides aflame with variegated hues of scarlet, while city streets are enlivened by pops of shocking orange.
We got out, and I found myself on a neglected hillside wild with grapevines, hazelnuts and olive trees.
Walking among the olive trees, we inhaled air scented by waist-high rosemary growing wild on the hillsides.
Others were cut by spice traders during the 17th and 18th centuries, who planted tea, cinnamon, cloves and ginger, long since abandoned and now growing wild on the hillsides.
Surrounded by thick forests and hillsides, wild animal attacks were not unheard of in this region, including wolf attacks.
I come to the patches that give me particular pleasure — cutting across the hillside, where wild strawberries grow, or mowing the high, rank grasses out near the pond hole that never filled.
When I was struggling in my 20s with relationships and my career, I went hiking alone to clear my head with the scent of wild mints on high hillside meadows and bone-chilling plunges into alpine lakes.
At Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester County, rhubarb growing wild on a nearby hillside inspired Dan Barber, the chef, to prepare a rhubarb cosmopolitan and rhubarb soup with fromage blanc sorbet and mint iced milk.
"I see secondary-school children all filing out with their teachers to the hillsides, picking wild foods, which the Koreans have traditionally done, but now they're having to rely on those wild foods much more," says Mr Morton.North Korea does itself few favours by concealing this widespread hunger (which is worst in the cities) from foreign journalists.
