From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.
His government is arguing over who gets the olive trees instead of over how to maximize the regional economy.
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Sitting on the warm sandstone at the top of Ubirr rock and peering over the edge to palm trees far below, I am dizzyingly aware that the scene before me has remained unchanged since prehistory.
Most of the trees over 10m (33 feet) tall have simply been snapped in half.
In the region, heavy wet snow has pine trees bent over to the ground and power lines torn free from houses.
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Other attractions include a water discovery centre on stilts above one of seven lakes, a garden dedicated to the understanding of plant genetics and woodland containing species of trees from all over the world.
Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee.
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The parish council has just handed over 14 trees to mark tree planting week, which are now in the school grounds.
When you put your paper in the trash, you boost the demand for virgin pulp and thus help trees win out over driveways in the competition for acreage.
Following the storms, Cornwall Council advised people not to use the section of the Camel Trail, between Wadebridge and Wenford Bridge, over the weekend because of falling trees.
The latter is a wonderful pick, visible through the trees as you make the short hike over a pine-needle-carpeted trail, edged by a tiny sandy beach (many of the ponds have no beach to speak of), and home to a bevy of quick-footed green frogs and one remarkably tame snapping turtle.
You hug the ridge of a huge inland cliff, looking out over a sea of moorland and trees towards the Scottish uplands.
Devon County Council's control room said it dealt with a number of fallen trees across the county, and Devon and Cornwall Police said the force had received reports of trees and cables down "all over the place".
It was late in the afternoon, the sun just going down over the fields, the last of the light filtering through the trees and shrubs along the road by the old hospital.
Connecticut suffered greatly in 2011 from the effects of Tropical Storm Irene and the October snowstorm which left over two feet on the ground and downed thousands of trees that Irene kindly spared.
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That asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.
For sky watchers, the reports bring to mind the famous Tunguska event of 1908 in remote Siberia, in which an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.
Though the pyramid was grown over with trees and brush, there could be no mistaking what it was, Morris said.
In that incident, an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling about 80 million trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island -- but leaving no crater.
Moments later she spotted flames leaping over the 80-foot-tall pine trees surrounding her 17-acre property.
Over the Christmas season 40 years ago Americans did all the traditional things - decorated trees, lit candles, drank eggnog.
Golfing here has a Lowcountry charm not found anywhere else, with palmettos and moss hanging from the trees, plus well over 200 days of sun a year and an average balmy temperature of 70F.
An elderly, heavy-set woman pruned the banana trees, while an enormous cauldron filled with the fruity tipple bubbled over a nearby open fire.
The mayor's positive passion is greenery: the city has planted over 200, 000 trees.
He knocked over the remains of whatever nests still stood, he broke low-hanging branches from the trees, he screamed and howled.
We drove to their health club a few miles away, passing various scenes of devastation and menacing trees and wires that dangled over the road just above car height.
Despite the concern in Washington over Iraq strategy, Congress must be careful to not see the forest for the trees.
On Thursday, the system moved through the Southeast, with high winds knocking over trees and power lines in rural west Alabama and eastern Mississippi.
Tradescant the Elder, especially, devoted much of his life to bringing new species of plants and trees to England, from all over the known world, and to cultivating new varieties from existing species.
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