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writing I admire, so dont copy them. Use them to inspire your own creativity:
Open land
Flat, dry, and monotonous, a seemingly limitless scrub waste without landmarks or
water or other relief
open land
Dusty, flat, featureless land--is that your setting?
Great sandstone outcropping

Easing over humps and trenches, potholes and stone rivers, bashing through the
trees where a track is blocked, the bucking climbs up steep eroded banks
This wasnt a Sahara-like desert of sand dunes. There were sporadic tufts of trees,
acacia and baobab, and on-again off-again grasses and shrubs as far as the eye
could see atop the brown earthen crust, a surface that looked as hard as stone and
somehow even less inviting.
A large outcropping of bundled roots from the remains of a dead baobab had broken
free from the hard pack alongside the road and needed to be negotiated, a dry wadi
that crossed the highway required downshifting to safely cross,
The miles, the motion, the flat wide-open land, the twisted Joshua trees and the
hot orange sunsets.
because of the time and the approaching rain, followed small antelope trails
instead of the larger buffalo trails, and in this way kept to a more direct route
dust was everywhereon leaves, branches, even on my teeth and lips
Narrow rocky defile
Beneath the jutting stone ledge, she sat hunched into a ball, knees tight against
her chest, her damp clothes about her.
Mountains
the cloud mist lifted, gradually came the dull patches of red glowing far beyond
the cliffs. Two active volcanoes
mountains
Or is it the rugged, craggy mountains of Alaska?
distant harsh mountains are composed of granite, covered with thorny shrubs and
acacia trees (Africa)
mountains, thrusting spires of naked rock into the heavens so high that you would
believe the very sky was pierced
Valleys
bounded on three sides by basalt outcrops and partially screened by brush

followed the ridge down toward a patch of grass
Olduvai appeared like a dark rift
Water
Oxbow lake
The river was a vigorous and optimistic blue
back to a rotting log that some long-forgotten flood had deposited crossways on the
spit
mouth of a thick sulfurous stream
watch the river (like a snake) to see the coiling of its muscular currents, catch
the shimmering of waves that caught the sunlight like scales
dry creek bed
Forests
forest
How about a thick verdant forest, dappled with sun?
the gallery forests of river red gum, various grasses, that lined the channels.
Maybe a low-lying area where runoff from high ground collected after rain.
Sometimes dense stands of mulga (acacia) woodland would grow there, where water was
easiest to find in a desert.
swallowed up by the jungle
thickly scented spruce branches clutched at his clothes, slapped against his chest
and shredded his hand
thick forest that carpeted the uplands
Along its length, cottonwoods had sprung up; young trees little more than twice a
mans height. Thick grass had carpeted the narrow strip
Cities
Cracks like hardweed through a broken sidewalk

Gordian knot of one-way streets
he saw Russia. He saw its fields, steppes, villages and towns, all bleached white
by the moon and bright stars.
Terms:
Hills
Valleys
Ridge
Saddle
Cliff
Draw spur
Cut
Fill
Contour lines
Man-made objects
Mixture
Hawkes Pond gleamed through a very thin fringe of trees. It was a long narrow pond
and across it the land rose up in a wooded hill crowned with power lines.
Splashing through somewhat deeper water, meter-tall sedge beds, speed is very slow
and awkward.
Reeds and cattails, bunchgrasses, dense thicket, (present as small mounds 10-15 cm
tall
Grass covers mounds, depressions that you would tend to stumble in as you walk
Croc-infested rivers during rainy season would inhibit large mammal movement
Mts (rain shadow), rivers (flood), lakes (subterranean water)
African habitats (mosaic pattern): forests (groundcover is ferns), woodlands
(ground cover is grasses, no canopy)), bushlands (tree species grow as bushes with
multiple stems, more fruit) with thickets, shrublands (scrub or dwarf woodlands),
grasslands, wooded grasslands, deserts
Plants: euphorbia, cacti,
Grassland-plateau, open country, velds, scrubland, deep washes, wadis, gully,
arroyo, wash, cut, creek
Grassespoacea Hyparrhenia diplandra, forbs, coarse and grows in tufts, euphorbia
Savanna vegetationcorms, bulbs, tap roots, rhizomes
Found a very nice outcropping of rocks just over the crest, the kind of place
snakes love.
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They are many and varied, so Ill just touch on each.

These, as usual, come from

Great sandstone outcropping

bounded on three sides by basalt outcrops and partially screened by brush

Cracks like hardweed through a broken sidewalk

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