Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 32 | 241 | These are generally "View more quotes about second">second-growth" patches. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 32 | 238 | It is hard not to be reminded of the columns in one of the great, shaded temples of Initiates, as in Turia or Ar. |
| 32 | 239 | And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, and live by parasitically feeding and exploiting the superstitions of the lower castes. |
| 32 | 240 | There are, of course, impenetrable, or almost impenetrable, areas in the jungle. |
| 32 | 241 | These are generally "second-growth" patches. |
| 32 | 242 | Through them one can make one's way only tortuously, cutting with the machete or panga, stroke by stroke. |
| 32 | 243 | They normally occur only where men have cleared land, and then, later, abandoned it. |
| 32 | 244 | That is why they are called "second-growth" patches; they normally occur along rivers and are not characteristic of the botanical structure of the virgin rain forest itself. |
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It is hard not to be reminded of the columns in one of the great, shaded temples of Initiates, as in Turia or Ar.
And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, and live by parasitically feeding and exploiting the superstitions of the lower castes.
There are, of course, impenetrable, or almost impenetrable, areas in the jungle.
These are generally "second-growth" patches.
Through them one can make one's way only tortuously, cutting with the machete or panga, stroke by stroke.
They normally occur only where men have cleared land, and then, later, abandoned it.
That is why they are called "second-growth" patches; they normally occur along rivers and are not characteristic of the botanical structure of the virgin rain forest itself.
- (Explorers of Gor)