Throughout the next few hours, Saavedra taught us about the chinampas, their construction and their natural surroundings.

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The young woman loves this city, even the prefabricated concrete structures and, of course, Hoyerswerda's natural surroundings.

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As the weather improves across a large swath of North America, you might find yourself longing for long vistas and natural surroundings.

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For what is a holiday but a chance to relax, explore the natural surroundings and enjoy other people who are just as happy to do the same.

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Donna Murphy and Jessie Mueller, for instance, are terrific, and the "Midsummer Night's Dream"-style set, designed by John Lee Beatty in collaboration with Soutra Gilmour, makes imaginative use of the Delacorte Theater's natural surroundings.

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As both make clear, Audubon's distinction was that he was a truly fine artist: his birds appear lifelike and as part of their natural surroundings, a welcome change from the stiff depictions used by earlier ornithologists such as Wilson.

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Writers and artist colonies like Yaddo in upstate New York hope that peaceful natural surroundings and stimulating company will work magic, and they may have: Yaddo alumni have collectively won 61 Pulitzer Prizes, 56 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in literature.

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And driving tests could change to include more unsupervised driving time, where examiners can observe candidates in more "natural" surroundings to assess their skills.

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Environmental - captures incidents where individuals and groups have an impact on their surroundings, including natural, built and social environments.

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