Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

the ceramic material of the age is more abundant, more diversified, and more indicative of the hopes and fears of its makers, who begin to show scenes of human life and death.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, strong economic growth, abundant natural resources and development of infrastruture, led to the arrival of even more Portuguese settlers.

Argon is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0. 93 % ( 9, 300 ppm ), making it approximately 23. 8 times as abundant as next most common atmospheric gas, carbon dioxide ( 390 ppm ), and more than 500 times as abundant as the next most common noble gas, neon ( 18 ppm ).

The drive was smoother than that of the previous day, as the craters were more shallow and boulders were less abundant north of the immediate landing site.

Boulders gradually became larger and more abundant as Young and Duke approached North Ray in the lunar rover.

About 556, 000 tonnes were produced in 2007, an amount similar to the far more abundant element magnesium.

Rainfall is more abundant there than in the Saharan region.

Brachiopods are also abundant ; they include productids, some of which ( for example, Gigantoproductus ) reached very large ( for brachiopods ) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form.

M. Fragiska mentions an archeological find of celery dating to the 9th century BC, at Kastanas ; however, the literary evidence for ancient Greece is far more abundant.

Trees tend to be taller to the west of the island where water is more abundant.

While they eat grass during the wet season, they have to switch to more abundant reeds during the dry season.

According to theory, this may give a comparative advantage in production of goods that make more intensive use of the relatively more abundant, thus relatively cheaper, input.

Details of the Axumite Kingdom, never abundant, become even more scarce after this point.

Although sunlight is free and abundant, solar electricity is still usually more expensive to produce than large-scale mechanically generated power due to the cost of the panels.

Nonetheless, all fur seals have certain features in common: the fur, generally smaller sizes, farther and longer foraging trips, smaller and more abundant prey items and greater sexual dimorphism.

During the wet season, food is abundant and giraffes are more spread out, while during the dry season, they gather around the remaining evergreen trees and bushes.

Helium is the second lightest element and is the second most abundant element in the observable universe, being present at about 24 % of the total elemental mass, which is more than 12 times the mass of all the heavier elements combined.

The most abundant isotope, hydrogen-1, protium, or light hydrogen, contains no neutrons ; other isotopes of hydrogen, such as deuterium, contain one or more neutrons.

The study showed that the U. S was more abundant in capital compared to other countries, therefore the U. S would export capital-intensive goods and import labor-intensive goods.

Rainfall in the mountains is more abundant and may reach a year in some places, but the terrain precludes extensive cultivation.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

In addition, Bandanese speak a distinct Malay Dialect which has several features distinguishing it from Ambonese Malay, the better-known and more widespread dialect that forms a lingua franca in central and southeast Maluku.

In Ireland, however, more dolmens are found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren — and Connemara, which includes some of the better-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen.

Jones points out that though Bryan's speaking engagements were not deemed political by the standards of 1896, by modern measurements he was far more active in campaigning for the nomination than most of the better-known candidates.

The difference between Hakka and the better-known Cantonese may be compared to that between Portuguese and Spanish, whereas Mandarin might be compared to French – more distantly related, and with a quite different phonology.

She also said that the popular domestic novels of the 19th century, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, were remarkable for their " intellectual complexity, ambition, and resourcefulness "; and that Uncle Tom's Cabin offers a " critique of American society far more devastating than any delivered by better-known critics such as Hawthorne and Melville.

Scream kicked off a new slasher cycle that still followed the basic conventions of the 1980s films, but managed to draw in a more demographically varied audience with improved production values, reduced levels of on-screen gore, increased self-referential humor, more character development and better-known actors and actresses ( often from popular television shows ).

Some of the more familiar and better-known gastropods are terrestrial gastropods ( the land snails and slugs ) and some live in freshwater, but more than two thirds of all named species live in a marine environment.

Not only were the better-known writings reprinted, many for the first time since the 1930s, but other more obscure articles and letters were collected and printed for a wider audience than they had when first distributed.

With the Carolingians, the appointments of both counts and dukes become more regular and better-known, though the office fell out of the orbit of the royal court and became hereditary.

Thus his writings are credited by some later scholars as having had a more significant impact on their intended audience than the now better-known writings of his more polemical and religiously-grounded contemporaries.

This work has more polished parallels in the better-known Metamorphoses of Ovid and in the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius.

With their enthusiasm and spontaneity, and the sense that the audience in the intimate ambience of the club is participating in the music, these performances share the characteristics that had been celebrated more than two decades before in the better-known Black Hawk performances.

This fish is similar in appearance to the closely related and better-known neon tetra, but it is slightly smaller and its red patch is less pronounced, while the blue-green areas of the upper body are more brilliant.

Amanita pantherina, while it contains the same hallucinogens as Amanita muscaria ( e. g., ibotenic acid and muscimol ), has been more commonly associated with severe gastrointestinal upset than its better-known counterpart.

To the southwest, across the Menlung Chu, lies Gauri Sankar, which, though a bit lower ( 7134 m ), is much more visible from Nepal, hence better-known.

However, this region more commonly takes South Alabama as a better-known name for the region.

With the Carolingians, the appointments ( of both counts and duces, dukes ) become more regular and better-known, though the office soon fell out of the orbit of the royal court and became hereditary.

As a social experiment it is similar to the model of the better-known Bournville company town founded by the Cadbury family near Birmingham, England, however it predates this development by more than 30 years.

The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than to the east of the inner German border ( Berlin having been similarly divided by the four powers after World War II, despite the entire city being in the Soviet zone, thus creating an enclave of capitalism surrounded by the communist east ).

The subsequent wide circulation of Albert ’ s work made him a better-known figure in some areas than more talented contemporaries like Buridan and Nicole Oresme.