Behind the trees, the sides of the valley shear up towards a blue sky.
As they disappeared into the forest, I heard loud whoops and whistles echoing off the trees.
The trees, however, were bare, creating dark, bleak silhouettes against an anaemic winter sky.
Around the sandy edge of the shore, the placid faces of moose peer out of the trees.
Sure enough, seconds later, a bear pads eagerly out of the trees and gets its paws stuck in.
The trees still grow this way, nodding their lush heads at us as we walked along the track.
Soon the trees disappeared, the gradient increased and the soil became black and powder-fine.
As the situation approaches, however, we begin to see the trees, and the forest disappears.
And in the case of the forests of south-western Nepal, the target is the trees.
So we started into the trees once more and got ourselves down by a roundabout route.
The trees grow small and stunted, their living branches bleached bone-white by wind and dust.
The weather was gorgeous with blue skies and sunrays pouring through the leaves of the trees.
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Tori Allen, a 2008 graduate, drove from Atlanta to say one last goodbye to the trees.
Encouraged by the wind, it defies gravity and flows up the gentle incline toward the trees.
Because the trees initially grow slowly, there is little competition between them and the crops.
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However, secretions from the trees' roots stimulate the germination of the witchweed seeds before crop planting.
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"That's going to add to the weight of the trees, to the power lines, " Heitkamp said.
The trees are being removed and replaced by raised flowerbeds as part of the regeneration.
With gouges and large holes, the trees are more susceptible to decay and disease.
It freaked my husband out because his family's buried right under one of the trees.
There were no worries about the height of the trees or the level of the sky.
But Davies sent her shot into water and Brewerton's 17th tee-shot landed among the trees.
He was staring at the street while a sparrow sang in the trees above.
Gusts of wind ripped leaves off the trees in front of the sturdy brownstone buildings.
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"I don't have to worry about the trees because they are all gone, " she said.
But other conservationists, especially those looking to reintroduce red squirrels, want the trees to remain.
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But I believe you are missing the forest for the trees, the universe for the consumers.
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The trees protect the neighborhood from floods and mudslides, which claim more Haitian lives every year.
"They're using the trees as a scapegoat, " says Mr. Malkin, president of Greenwich Tree Conservancy.
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Down a dirt road, we came upon a family of giraffes eating in the trees.
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