The people had a significant effect on the vegetation in the Subboreal (accelerated replacement of deciduous trees by Picea).

She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

[…] gathering the bedding from the sofa like a doghoused husband, he'd make a spot for us while he went about his morning ablutions […]

A cloud of sea birds hovered overhead, the gannets diving with folded wings, while the black noddy-terns fluttered down in companies each time the fish drove the small fry to the surface.