(1) Iceland is a land of extremes: milky-blue geothermal waters steaming in vast expanses of hardened lava next to bright green mossy hills and waterfalls.(2) We walked, without speaking much, clambered over the stile and through the paddock towards the river and the oak tree whose roots came up through the mossy soil like a tangle of serpents.(3) A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.(4) The ocean vanishes as the path heads downwards, and when you reach the bottom of a narrow gully you enter another world, where giant ferns brush your sides and water trickles between mossy boulders.(5) Statues of the Buddha were mossy , furred with green.(6) Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.(7) They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside.(8) The grass was mossy and soft, and there were trees and bushes and flowers everywhere.(9) The reward was a view of a reed-edged lake, snow-capped mountains and a brilliant green mossy floodplain where wild horses grazed.(10) They are as at home in a mossy rock pool or muddy creek as on a spectacular wreck.(11) The track was soft and mossy , and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.(12) Ferns sprout from mossy lintels and trees reach for the sky from small, now-roofless rooms which were the living quarters of slaves.(13) Her hands and feet were met by a soft mossy carpet that tickled slightly at first touch.(14) There are two waterfalls, and then a sumptuous mossy wood.(15) Their outstretched branches covered the mossy ground and entwined with the branches of the neighboring trees.(16) Below dark cliffs and mossy overhangs lay olive groves, entire slopes terraced with backbreaking plots of retaining walls and water channels.
