Cyclical tools are like trees, whose falling leaves fertilize the soil in which they grow.
FORBES: Evil Analytics: How What You Measure Becomes Your Master
Think then of what the cumulative exposure does to longer-lived species like trees.
FORBES: Protesters To Target Koch Brothers' Secretive 'Billionaires Caucus'
Bats prefer to roost in natural features like trees and caves, but as development has made those environments scarcer, some species have adapted to urban areas.
"The weeds are growing up like trees and they are going to start interfering with the houses if the roots come through and we don't want that, " she said.
As a result, neighbourhood car parks have suddenly started blossoming across the country like cherry trees.
ECONOMIST: The unexpected results of a clamp-down on illegal parking
Money has also been spent on persuading poppy farmers to grow alternative crops, like fruit trees or saffron.
ECONOMIST: New figures show Afghanistan's opium output is rising fast
Linked, that is, like dead trees in a forest pulling down new growth.
FORBES: Requiem for Failed UN Telecom Treaty: No One Mourns the WCIT
She watched as her grandmother struggled to thread a needle with fingers that were beginning to bend at odd angles, like old trees.
When night falls, thousands of fireflies light up these river reeds like Christmas trees, making this a truly fairytale end to a very special journey.
The teenager figured that solar panels designed like the trees might be a more efficient way of collecting energy than the simple flat panels mostly in use.
Roses with their thorns stuck out everywhere, and the lilies, whose columnar stalks the girl had bunched at the center, shot up through the top of the bouquet like, like, like like insane trees towering above some insane world, he thought.
Ornamental tree varieties like Jacaranda were also planted on the terraces to provide shade, as well as palm trees and fruit trees like papaya.
Now the same tractors they use to plant soybeans are put to work planting seeds from native trees like Landi, Muruci and Baru.
Between 2002 and 2011, only two of 58 U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter fatalities came from hazardous trees like the one that killed Veseth.
Plus, we really like making decision trees.
FORBES: Obamacare Investment Income: A Downloadable Cheat Sheet
It will help you find your dog that's wandered a bit too far from the front yard, though, assuming he's still within a half mile or so (like walls, trees can get in the way of the signal, too).
ENGADGET: BluTracker lets you locate your stuff within 2,500 feet, we go hands-on (video)
Bougainvillea blooms year round, palm trees are everywhere dotting the skyline like enormous chrysanthemums and ficus trees reach the size of old growth oaks, reminding you that California is a very hospitable place to grow and bloom on many levels.
Sometimes, however, like me, the wood is very much masked by the trees and what seems like the right career move ends up having terrible consequences for the people that you love the most.
At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.
Though bright-red Japanese maples are most recognisable, many other showy trees burst into colour, like the deep golden ginkgo and burnt-orange zelkova trees.
Inside, the lawns were groomed like golf courses, with mounds of impatiens, blooming hibiscus trees, and bushes carved like giant dinner rolls.
Others spoke of flames that were 30ft (9m) high, and trees that looked like firecrackers.
The message is reinforced with billboard-like inscriptions on the village trees.
Here was the truck tire, here the place where the trail briefly widened, here the place where the trees crossed overhead like reaching for one another.
The Saxon Hotel, Villas and Spa is a garden-like oasis shrouded in tall trees and flower blossoms set on 10 acres in the Sandhurst neighbourhood, 1km west of Sandton.
In rural areas like Araioses there are fruit trees, there are rivers to be fished, now there are free school meals and there is a sense of solidarity that encourages the sharing of food.
And that makes the next 18 hours or so very scary indeed for homeowners like us surrounded by tall trees, not to mention our friends living by the beach who have all hopefully evacuated by now.
It specializes in so-called nonrow agricultural chemicals--herbicides and pesticides for fruit and nut trees instead of crops like corn grown in rows.
应用推荐