Bright Green Environmentalism

You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it (вы видите: «замечаете» те ярко-зеленые пятна, густо усыпавшие ее; to scatter разбрасывать; усыпать)?" "Yes, they seem more fertile than the rest (да, /земля там/ кажется более плодородной, чем в остальных /местах/)." resident ['rezId(@)nt], explore [Iks'plO:], gallop ['g&l@p] "You know it well, then?" "I have only been here two years. The residents would call me a new-comer. We came shortly after Sir Charles settled. But my tastes led me to explore every part of the country round, and I should think that there are few men who know it better than I do." "Is it so hard to know?" "Very hard. You see, for example, this great plain to the north here, with the queer hills breaking out of it. Do you observe anything remarkable about that?" "It would be a rare place for a gallop." "You would naturally think so, and the thought has cost folk their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?" "Yes, they seem more fertile than the rest." Stapleton laughed (Стэплтон рассмеялся). "That is the great Grimpen Mire (это большая Гримпенская трясина)," said he. "A false step yonder means death to man or beast (один неверный шаг вон там означает смерть для человека или для животного) ...»