From time to time he spotted a tree all alone out on the plain, and the vision struck him as poetic, as if the tree and the scenery of the deserted countryside had been arranged just for him and had been awaiting his arrival with an imperturbable patience.
They will also do badly if the tree has old, gnarled roots, rather than young, succulent ones.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, it still makes a sound.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one laughs, then you've killed a perfectly good tree for nothing.
If the new tree is a better fit for the leaves, it is taken as the starting point for the next spin.
"I tell them, 'You are barking up the wrong tree if you want someone to generate commissions for you, ' " he said.
Not wanting to get blocked in if a pine tree collapsed, I parked nearer to Old Harbor Road, my street in the boondocks.
The shallows lapped from different directions at the tree as if almost teething on it.
K. Narayanan said that Obama would be "barking up the wrong tree" if he were to subscribe to such views.
We learned from this experience that it helps to have an existing relationship with a tree company if you need quick service after a disaster.
At first it looks more like a fat white and yellow fish swimming through a green sun-speckled ocean, as if it and the tree and the grass were occupants of a fantastical aquarium.
"If you look at the tree of life, nearly all of our microbes, and thus our antibiotics, come from one branch on that tree, " says Barton.
Will anyone need help if power goes out or a tree blocks a road?
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But a tree cannot be healthy if the branches are overburdened, the trunk is damaged, or the roots are weak.
Perhaps the message of the little oak tree is that, if we take the time to look, there are shoots of hope.
If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.
If a female chooses poorly and the tree dies in the next 17 years, her larvae will die too.
Public Schools wrote a letter to the White House asking if they could put up a Christmas tree on the South Lawn.
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In many areas local utility companies will even cut back your wayward tree branches free of charge if they sit too close to electrical lines.
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That is: lie in a ditch or ... (get) behind a heavy object if you had a tractor or even a tree.
If roots show signs of decay, the tree should probably come down.
Her death from a seizure earlier this year felt as if someone ripped a branch from our family tree, and the loss still hurts.
If your neighbor told you prior to the tree falling that the tree was damaged, his or her insurance company may try to recoup the loss from your homeowners policy.
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Butting and shaking, the animal, covered with shaggy black wool, looks as if he is either going to rip the tree from the ground or sacrifice a piece of his head.
One picture from that Greenpeace link in particular says it all: a region of tropical Sumatran forest cleared with as much wide-scale devastation as if a tsunami had taken out every last tree.
Pollen particles are "so small, even if you're not sitting under a tree or anything, you're going to get large amounts of pollen that could be blown from miles away, " Mr. Robinson said.
The main advantage of using genetic markers is that it speeds up old-fashioned breeding methods, because you no longer have to wait for the tree to grow up to see if it has the desired traits.
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The bundle feels soft, as if the car were climbing over a felled banana tree.
"It gives drivers sufficient time to react if there is, for example, a fallen tree on the line, " she said.
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