We stand in awe of the centuried Redwoods of the Pacific coast and the twisted, giant Saguaros of the high desert, but compared to the Chaparral bush they are mere infants.
In fact, there's evidence that Australia's indigenous people practised regular burning of bush land for thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans.
Right now, 2015, we expanded our tapir conservation efforts to the Brazilian Cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub forests in the central part of Brazil.
In the rays of the late afternoon sun, every well-remembered field and forest grove was green and still, with an unearthly quiet that struck terror to Scarlett's heart.
" Ugh! " snarled the Wolf as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, " this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Government look to it? "
They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse, some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly.