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pastoral
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pastoral
emanating from or pertaining to the use of land for pasture.

pastoral rearing
raising of young, after weaning, on pasture where they are more susceptible to nutritional deficiencies and parasitic infestation than young reared indoors.


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That means embracing GM crops, not harking back to some Thomas Hardy golden age of bucolics aarrhing about in smocks, making "organic" grub that's too expensive to buy.
Among their topics are the herdsman in Greek thought, epigram at the margins of pastoral, panegyric in Virgil's Bucolics, pastoral anxieties in Senecan drama, the pastoral novel and the bucolic tradition, and the pastoral in Byzantium.
The sources of his pastoral and mythological paintings were Virgil's Bucolics and Ovid's Metamorphoses, that compendium of classical legends which often include metamorphoses, or magical and generally symbolic transformations.
 
 
 
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