Northwestern Thorn Scrub Forest
The Northwestern thorn scrub forests are a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Pakistan and northwestern India, a region of extreme temperatures and a climate that was once covered in deciduous forest.
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“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
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Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
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