sylvan
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If it weren’t for the long-ago gift of some 3,000 gorgeous sylvan acres from a cranky jailbird with a civic conscience and a large and very taxable real estate portfolio, we wouldn’t have Griffith Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The sylvan glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Are you up for another sylvan frolic, courtesy of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
Consider the hectares and hectares of fences and hedges, often erected at considerable cost to transform a yard, and certainly a pool, into an owner’s sylvan duchy.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Hidden Figures
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The Waste Land
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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