Carl Honore

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

Canadian Journalist

Tom Hodgkinson

I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

British Writer

Eric Stoltz

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

American Actor

JoJo

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

American Musician

Steve Backshall

I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in the middle of the rainforest. When everybody else is chilling out after filming, I am usually writing!

James Brolin

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

Paul Ryan

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

American Politician

Miranda Kerr

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

Australian Model

Joe Lycett

There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.

British Comedian

Allen West

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

Hammock often implies leisure and relaxation activities, especially outdoors.

Relaxation Connotation

The use of 'hammock' is casual, suitable for friendly and informal conversations.

Informal Setting

Understand that a hammock needs to be set up between two supports, like trees or posts.

Installment Required

Know that in the context of geography, a hammock refers to elevated land in wet areas.

Geographical Feature

A hammock is a habitat for diverse plant and animal life, not just an elevation.

Ecosystem Home

Understand that 'hammock' can be an ecological term, especially in academic contexts.

Ecology Term

 freeze-frame I just wanted to scare everybody and then if see anyways so since also jumped in on the competition oh my pages right this over here is her B's beautiful drawing it is a hammock up fishing and then this good over yeah is actually the nest and there's a little chicken side waiting

Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...

 guess what you get mud so we called it mud world so at the end of the day your legs are covered in mud if you're lucky just up to the knee like completely and utterly covered in mud and then after an exhausting day of slogging through mud world just getting into his hammock was a

First Ascent of a Sky...

 instead, they rely on retractor muscles to pull themselves along. They have long, hooked claws and a high fatigue resistance, so they can literally hook on and hang like a happy, hairy hammock for hours on end. And sloths can do almost anything in this inverted position.

Sloths! The strange life...

 if I ever sleep outside you can but you have to sleep up in a tree so if you wanted to sleep outside you'd find a tree like this one and you'd put a hammock in the tree or you would put a tree house up there and then you could sleep there otherwise if you want to

Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...

 and it's beautiful and lush and there's all sorts of animals she and her crew ended up camping in the forest with the rangers and slept outside and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life we were set up in hammocks with all

The Trouble with...

 listen carefully you hear we be able to get a flyby of a hammock open that was it very easy to see he was just flying straight Esther there but we are looking at thick the gang of geese in a hostile seven dad is nowhere to be seen now so

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 "My blood pressure went through the roof, I lost full control of my bodily functions, I passed out in a heap, I woke up in a hammock six hours later, felt like God for two days." An Italian chemist read this and said,

Mark Plotkin: What the...

 leopard tortoise as well oh dear and this by the way this beautiful beautiful area is called treehouse dam and over there there is a hammock rope which I think might actually be the first time a

Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...

 suspend the yolk like a hammock allowing it to rotate and ensuring that the embryo remains on top where he can develop safely

How An Egg Becomes A...

 is of being somewhere else like a hammock on a beach or Pittsburgh and some people dream that somewhere else

Hammock

A hanging bed or couch made of canvas or rope.

Often appears as...

A forested area raised above the surrounding marshes in southern United States.

Often appears as...

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Relaxation Connotation

Informal Setting

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