Alpine Schadenfreude

The natural floodplain meadows are almost gone.

The Kea is the only alpine parrot.

People with no humour are like meadows without flowers.

In the floodplains of the rivers, there are meadows.

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

People with no sense of humor are like meadows with no flowers.

Alpine pastures occur at higher altitudes and mesophytic forests on more fertile soils.

The brothers had to pass through the forest on their way to the meadows.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far.

The chief income from his sister's estate was derived from the meadows, which were flooded every spring.

For nature lovers, the land of Tajikistan is 93 mountainous with ethereal alpine lakes dotted all over.

Italy joined the Germans in the Battle of France, fighting the fortified Alpine Line at the border.

From the shady meadows of marketing, they seem to embrace the terrible idea that bad coverage is better than none.

BERLIN The latest G 7 summit, in the beautiful Alpine setting of Garmisch Partenkirchen in Germany, has come and gone.

and Perspolis F.C.. Audi also sponsors winter sports The Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is named after the company.

Constantine, who was obliged to go to the cornfields and meadows, offered to give his brother a lift in his trap.

The cattle yard, the fruit and vegetable gardens, the meadows and the corn fields, divided into several parts, should come under different sections.

A group of Kazakhstani photographers have recently toured the mountainous region of Altai in in the country's east, known for its picturesque alpine scenery.

The peasants asked him to let them some meadows at a reduced rent, I think, and he refused, and I reproached him with being stingy.

The summit was first climbed in 1868 by D. W. Freshfield, A. W. Moore, and C. Tucker of the Alpine Club, with the guide François Devouassoud.

Levin counted the carts, and was pleased to see that sufficient manure was being brought. At sight of the meadows his thoughts turned to the hay harvest.

The local men opposed this innovation by all the means in their power, but the plan succeeded, and in the first year the meadows brought in almost double.

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia.

And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

Blogger Ident from Trikala, Central Greece, takes his readers to a journey through the Alpine landscapes of the Greek countryside, capturing the South Pindos villages and its landmarks.

Tajikistan, 93 mountainous with ethereal alpine lakes dotted all over, is a veritable shrine for nature lovers, providing they can live with the rutted roads and burdensome bureaucracy.

The town scenes in the movie were shot in Hope, while the rest of the movie was shot in Golden Ears Provincial Park and Pitt Lake in Pitt Meadows.

Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far. Only in 1993 did the EU officially recognize that membership for all the former Soviet bloc countries could be a long term goal.

It was precisely the concept of caution that had long ago made Swiss bankers the guardians of the world's major assets no excessive risk, but security for money, whether the world fell apart outside the Alpine republic or not.

The continent of Zealandia, which separated from Australia 85 million years ago and stretches from New Caledonia in the north to New Zealand s subantarctic islands in the south, is now being torn apart along the transform boundary marked by the Alpine Fault.