Name: A Darwinian theory of...
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Description: featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees. The trees, by the way, are often preferred if they fork near the ground, that is to say, if they're trees you could scramble up if you were in a tight fix.

Michael Winter

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Canadian Writer

David Bergen

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

Canadian Novelist

Francis Parkman

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

American Historian

Michael Paterniti

The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.

American Writer

A 'copse' is smaller than a forest and usually refers to an area with fewer trees.

Size Matters

Use 'copse' to describe a natural setting, not planned rows of trees in urban areas.

Natural Setting

'Copse' should not be confused with 'forest' – it's usually less dense and easier to walk through.

Not Dense

 featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees. The trees, by the way, are often preferred if they fork near the ground, that is to say, if they're trees you could scramble up if you were in a tight fix.

A Darwinian theory of...

 sneak over the border into an world in Angola there was civil war bombings and killings camps being attacked in the middle of the night while we are sleeping while hearing bullets flying all over your head copses all over the

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