apply oneself voraciously

to get over

growing, breeding and keeping

with a resilient core of rubber

shelter

restraint as a matter of caution

obligatory force of something

to look with favor

cut from the stalk

Ignace's mobile home

nature

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

-- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

originated in the Middle East

a symbol of the home itself

buzzed

civil liberty, as opposed to subjection to an arbitrary or despotic government

of the southern hemisphere

in a state of agitation

the most important or most frequently seen side

a fixed marker

enclosing a miniaturized scene

to be fulfilled

the notion of lucky or magic

under the surface

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
vast and endless sea. "
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery