Moorlands

This species, which is endemic to marshes and moorlands located in the Ethiopian highlands, is very much like the northern lapwing, V. vanellus, found in Europe: it is a relatively tame, noisy bird with a swerving flight that feeds on the ground, making short runs and sudden stops. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So we went to the cabin, and explored the moorlands. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Without air, the bacteria and fungi that usually destroy wood in a matter of years can't grow, meaning many lakes and moorlands in Europe are considered archaeological treasure troves. ❋ Craig Kanalley (2010)

It lacks even the debatable beauty of more elegant bits of the motorway network – the Chilterns cutting on the M40, the Shap moorlands on the M6, and the farmhouse trapped between the carriageways high on the M62. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You don't often see a heat haze over moorlands here at this time of year, but recently the air above the heather has been wobbling in the heat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the UK, some familiar species will become scarcer as our rare habitats mires, bogs and moorlands are lost. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So Grendel (and presumably other eotens) lived in wilderness and wasteland, including mountains (fells), moorlands and marshes or fens. ❋ Carla (2010)

Fay Godwin's Remains Of Elmet, commissioned to accompany Ted Hughes's poems of the same name, view the brooding moorlands of the Calder Valley into stark monochrome tragedies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Emily's anxiety that I would get lost on the bare rolling grassland didn't take into consideration the boyhood training I'd had in following deer across unmapped Scottish moorlands. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)

The red grouse has been part of the moorlands 'social history for centuries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For a moment Raven wanted to speak of Lochlann -- of mountains which rose sheer into a red-sun sky, trees dwarfed and gnarled by incessant winds, moorlands, ice plains, oceans too dense and bitter with salt for a man to sink. ❋ Peter DeWolf (2010)

The river Axe rises from the murky depths of Wookey Hole and makes its winding way through moorlands to where, from your spot by the church wall, you see it emerging from Bleadon moor and spreading into Weston Bay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fan, after the hard, jagged slash of the mountain at their heart, like an axe-blade, rimed with ice along its edge and rising barren over the moorlands: a cold, wet Welsh autumn already, coming on towards winter, and the other dragons sleepy and remote, uninterested in anything but their meals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His songs – derived from ancient Dartmoor tales – are full of white knights embracing passionate servants, and romantic tragedies acted out on desolate moorlands, often involving a busty maiden. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"[I want] to [run with] you through [Moorland Fields]." ❋ Peteyorn (2003)

❋ Chris Scroggins (2003)

[Dave Grohl]: "moorland fields rocks!" John Lennon: "moorland fields b shiz!" Bono: "moorland fields is good music" [Tom Morello]: "I luv moorland fields!" [Pete Yorn]: "moorland fields. period." ❋ Sonny-boy (2003)