Summary
In the deserts of Xinjiang, the grass steppes of Mongolia and the plains of Shanxi, thousands of miles of the wall are lapsing back into the landscape, eroded by earthquake, wind, freeze-thaw and plant growth. The millions of tiny seeds of vegetation... hiding in the mud on the foot of an arctic tern, in the dry desert sands, or in the wind ... each ready to float, freeze orbe swallowed, but always preserving the germ.
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Wall On the Wild Side
I spent last autumn and winter living in Beijing, my second long stint in the city. My activities included eating, writing, teaching and walking. Not a bad set of gerunds to live by. But come midNovember, I was beginning to miss the British landscape. The symptoms were all there: listening to V...
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