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It's a kind of Hudson River school landscape featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees.
Here's a building for The Gap, where the ancient grasses of San Bruno, California, are on the roof.
So all the grasses, which means all of the cereal crops, and most of the trees have wind-borne pollen.
Now, if it does not decay biologically, it shifts to oxidation, which is a very slow process, and this smothers and kills grasses, leading to a shift to woody vegetation and bare soil, releasing carbon.
So as terrestrial beings, we're very familiar with the plants on land: the trees, the grasses, the pastures, the crops.
And agriculture suddenly appeared to me not as an invention, not as a human technology, but as a co-evolutionary development in which a group of very clever species, mostly edible grasses, had exploited us, figured out how to get us to basically deforest the world.
The competition of grasses, right?
But then I realized, "No, this is exactly what the grasses want us to do.
This is how the prairies were built, the relationship between bison and grasses.
They ambled through the forests and savannas using their strong arms and sharp claws to uproot plants and climb trees, grazing on grasses, leaves, and prehistoric avocados.
The Takahe of New Zealand, for example, lives almost entirely on the soft base of alpine grasses.
Rural to urban migration meant that newfound industrial materials started to replace hard-to-come-by natural grasses.
And it's important to understand that this landscape was open, with meadows and open canopy forests, and it was the grasses of the meadows and in the grassy understories of the open forest that many of the wildfires were carried.
I mean, if you think about it, the cattle and the sheep ate the grasses which had been the conveyer belt for the historical fires, and this prevented once-frequent fires from thinning out trees and burning up dead wood.
And, like all grasses, at a certain point it puts out seeds.
The acacia trees are of a very low value but we need them to restore the micro-climate, to protect the soil and to shake out the grasses.
And I did go out, and I did this picture of grasses coming through in the spring, along a roadside.
This dried out the rest of the world, but it allowed the rise of grasses, of rodents, of cats.
I have this neighbor that keeps me in touch with this, because he's living, usually on his back, looking up at those grasses.
And it isn't just bright flowers that have pollen; it's also trees and grasses.
And remember that all our cereal crops are grasses as well.
The elephants have carved the shallow lake water up into a network of little pathways, and they're spaced just enough apart that only elephants, with their long trunks, can tap into the most succulent grasses.
These grasses are irrigated by the dense coastal fog that blankets the area every morning.
Vegetation in large stretches of lowland can be hurt substantially as saltwater-tolerant mangroves and grasses take over from other species.
When the rains fail, the grasses shrivel, the livestock die, and communities face starvation.
At the same time, efforts to conserve and expand carbon “sinks” – that is, the forests, wetlands, grasslands, mangroves, and sea grasses that absorb much of the CO2 being emitted – are crucial.
After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.
The most common crops of all – wheat, maize, and rice – are grasses that rely on the wind for pollination.
The bluish grasses had turned yellowish green.
But it's more likely that these grasses, algae, and fucus plants were carried off from the beaches of Europe and America, then taken as far as this zone by the Gulf Stream.