They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes.

He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo.

The larvae of mites and Ricinulei have only six legs a fourth pair usually appears when they moult into nymphs.

By the late 1970s, the Mexican forestry sector landed in crisis after over exploiting its forests.

This site has some of the best pictures of the Honduran cloud forest that can be found on the internet.

The more she looked at the young man the more she longed for him.

He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope.

That was designed on that machine, in the woods behind the Institute.

The area boasts numerous lakes and dense coniferous forests.

Vertebrates For the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), in the winter, as much as 45 of its body may freeze and turn to ice.

She was to become the most important of all abbesses in the history of Essen.

Name Himalia is named after the nymph Himalia who bore three sons of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter).

The woman who as a child had skipped with him through fields and broken his heart.

The rex Nemorensis (Latin, king of Nemi or king of the Grove ) was a priest of the goddess Diana at Aricia in Italy, by the shores of Lake Nemi, where she was known as Diana Nemorensis.

Santa Ninfa is a town and comune in South Western Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Trapani.

The government maintained centralized control of the rainforests until 1940, when concessions were granted to private companies for the exploitation of forest resources.

Smaller woods are still found outside the city, but in ancient times, they were far more widespread.

In the 7th century, the nominally Christian aristocracy of Benevento was still practising pagan rituals, such as sacrifices in sacred woods.

Tyrande Whisperwind, leader of the Night Elves, is outraged to find the Humans and Orcs violating the forests and blames them for Cenarius' death, so she initially vows to destroy both.

To feign numerical superiority, Lafayette ordered men to appear from the woods on an outcropping (now Lafayette Hill) and to fire upon the British periodically.

A number of municipalities bear the name of one of their townships (be it its capital or not), but not all them do.

To them they do their sacrifices in the sea they invoke Neptune, in the rivers the Lamias in the fountains the Nymphs, and in the forests Diana.

According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis.

Parks and lakes Due to its location in the foothills of the Little Carpathians and its riparian vegetation on the Danubian floodplains, Bratislava has forests close to the city centre.

By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid.

In 1983, Adrastea was officially named after the Greek nymph Adrastea, the daughter of Zeus and his lover Ananke.

In the dream, he is taken by some nymphs to meet their queen, and there he is asked to declare his love for Polia, which he does.

And it's looking up on the wooded heights of Washington Heights to Jeffrey's Hook, where the George Washington Bridge goes across today.

Image Detail from a mosaic pavement in the House of Dionysos ,

A local farmer, Vincenz Preissnitz, was walking through the woods when he caught sight of a limping deer that had just come out of a spring.

By the 18th century the town had been reduced to little more than a village surrounded by forests and disease ridden swamps.

The area around Banja Luka is mostly woodland, although there are mountains a little further from the city.

In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe who was a lover of Zeus the Greek equivalent of Jupiter.

It was in the woods of Caria, near Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) that he encountered the nymph, Salmacis, in her pool.

Callisto was a nymph (or, according to some sources, the daughter of Lycaon) who was associated with the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

Some problems with this theory are that there is no evidence that Godberd was ever known as Robin Hood and no sign in the early Robin Hood ballads of the specific concerns of de Montfort's revolt.

Some of Johann Strauss' most famous works include The Blue Danube , Kaiser Walzer , Tales from the Vienna Woods , and the Tritsch Tratsch Polka .

Forests and meadows, beautiful views of the Czech and Polish inland, network of trails for cyclists and pedestrians all of these make your journey to the Orlické Mountains worth it.

In this dream, he saw a valley with woods and meadows crossed by a clear river and dotted with fresh water springs on fertile land.

Matsushima is known as one of the three most scenic views of Japan, with a bay full of 260 small islands covered in pine groves.

Maringá has a high rate of concentration of green area per capita, there are of native forest on 17 preserved areas.

Deep and raw centuries old forests on the hillsides, bald ridges with roughened cliffs, rugged gorges, through which untamed mountain streams rolls.

An estimated 2,300 communal lands and communities in Mexico of a total of 8,400 are allowed to use wood from their forests and rainforests.

I really think the woods are just as lovely in winter as in summer. They're so white and still, as if they were asleep and dreaming pretty dreams.

The most immediate cause of the new adjustments appears to have been an increasing aridity in the region and consequent contraction of parkland savanna, interspersed with trees and groves, in favor of open grassland, dated 1.8 1.7 mya.