Its vast acres of sloping greenery, its glades and its trees present a striking backcloth.
The two buzzing squares make Piata Libertati feel like an oasis of relative calm, its trees offering shade to anyone who cares to sit and watch life sweep past.
It is now missing most of its main trees, and its interior has reverted to a sprouting scrub of ash and bramble.
First, mistletoe weakens (and sometimes kills) its host trees, opening them to infestations by wood-boring insects and similar critters.
The oil multinational hopes its improved trees, now growing in test sites in Uruguay and Chile, will prove a boon to the pulp and paper industry.
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William liked Bloomington, with its lush, towering trees, and fireflies at dusk, and its austere gray university buildings.
Heading west to Colorado, Aspen is aglow this time of year in bright golds and oranges from its famous aspen trees.
The large well-kept green, with its row of chestnut trees on the south side.
Profitable before the 1999 agreement, it has slipped into the red every year since, even in 2002, the only year when it was able to harvest its promised allocation of trees.
The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
In the winter, dusted by fallen snow, its pure abstraction is set off by bare trees, a vision of cold, crisp beauty, its marble taking on the look of an all-white Agnes Martin painting.
Sure enough, seconds later, a bear pads eagerly out of the trees and gets its paws stuck in.
Should the mesquite be allowed to kill the casuarina trees by drilling its roots deeper and depriving them of water, as in some places it seems to be doing?
The crash caused an "earth-shattering rumble, " sparking a "huge fireball" and sending piece of the jet hurtling into the neighborhood, said Yelinek, who estimates he was about 100 yards from where the jet made its initial contact with the trees.
However, during cherry blossom season, the park becomes crowded and noisy due to its extremely popular, huge weeping trees.
But when it does, you can bet shoppers will line up for cheap versions of its oversize club chairs and candle trees.
In the same way Amazon helped kill off the last of the brick-and-mortar bookstore, it has the dead-trees textbook firmly in its sights.
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Amtrak said it has suspended rail service between New York and Boston, and between Springfield, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, due to severe weather and fallen trees, according to its website.
Because the output of a wind turbine also tends to increase proportionally with its distance from barriers such as trees or buildings, the most productive -- and cost-effective -- turbines sit atop tall towers erected on an acre or more of open land.
In the capital, Apia, homes were flattened and the Vaisigano River burst its banks, washing away cars, trees and other debris.
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Isaac has left its mark in the form of downed trees, curbs covered in branches and other detritus, a few twisted stoplights and bent signs.
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Timberland partnered with Smallholder Farmers Alliance, a local non-governmental organization (NGO), to meet its commitment of helping plant 5 million trees in a five-year period.
While the wood in the study was placed there by scientists, wood naturally finds its way into the ocean as dead trees fall into rivers and are swept out to sea, when storm debris is taken by surging waters and even from shipwrecks.
Today the tearoom sticks to its roots, serving delicate pastries among palm trees and wicker furniture in an old-fashioned conservatory.
In one recent example, Two Trees Management saw strong demand for its new rental building, Gair 2, on Washington Street in Dumbo.
But apparently life in the prison, which is beautifully preserved, with its well-manicured yard under large monkeypod trees just off the main drag, was not all bad.
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