Nameless waterfalls tumble down from the plateau above, while the shadows of clouds dance across treeless slopes.

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They hurried across an expanse of treeless yard to the front of the apartment complex.

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Later we emerged in a high, wide valley, monochrome, treeless and silent.

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Good descriptions of the Nullarbor (which means "treeless") Plain and of the fabulously awful industrial city of Port Hedland, north of the Outback Coast.

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Rather than prattle on about the coming apocalypse, they could work to replace treeless, dense slums with shaded low-lying clean houses that are easier to heat or cool.

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We ride along the path, downhill through the treeless landscape.

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And the relative treeless vistas means the wind blows.

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Planting native shrubs in the pipeline pathways, which need to remain treeless to avoid root damage to pipes and to give maintenance crews access, would be better than just grass, the Nature Conservancy noted.

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Planting native shrubs in clear-cut areas, which need to remain treeless to avoid root damage to underground pipes and to give maintenance crews access, would be better than just grass, the Nature Conservancy noted.

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Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.

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