The king was unfamiliar with golf, but he liked the idea of a green oasis, and the course opened a few years later.

The black bars on the clock face are green oases.

A lovely, well designed, green little oasis in the middle of a concrete jungle.

That, he said, would turn the palace into a "green oasis".

Even the bleak blocks of housing surrounding the park seem to draw life from this blue and green oasis.

"We've become spoiled and want a green oasis at home," he said.

As one memorial put it, "probably no other person has done as much to make this region a green oasis."

Since the early 1990s, the Peralta staff, students, families and neighbors have been working to make the school a green oasis.

There will be flowing water here open to the sky and green oases rich with good things.

It is the last green oasis before the desert.