Isabella Bird

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.

English Explorer

Nicholas Soames

As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.

British Politician

W. H. Davies

How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

Welsh Poet

I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir up unnecessary trouble in the countryside. In fact, greater access to the uplands has been a very good thing.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.

English Clergyman

Wendell Berry

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

American Poet

Jonathan Miles

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

Andrea Leadsom

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

Upland often contrasts with urban lowlands, referring to non-city or less-populated high areas.

Not Urban

'Upland' may evoke images of natural, scenic, and often less cultivated landscapes.

Natural Scenery

Upland refers to ecosystems with specific vegetation and wildlife distinct from lower areas.

Ecosystem Type

Used as an adjective, 'upland' can describe the type of farming suited to highland areas.

Farming Context

As an adjective, 'upland' emphasizes a simpler, rural quality associated with the highlands.

Rural Atmosphere

 so I felt an obligation to create magnificent parks on these waterfronts, and I spent an incredible amount of time on every square inch of these plans. I wanted to make sure that there were tree-lined paths from the upland to the water,

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 the evolution is what its ended up being in particular in the near shore it's been a dramatic transformation the near shore is a very important bridge between the upland and marine systems and it is a critical link between the two that

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 that the hares need to try and avoid but a major killer of these upland dwellers is actually humans Mountain has been accused of transmitting grouse killing ticks and are consequently persecuted and browse moorland