A body might think this was dead wood, but I don't believe it is down to the root.

人们可能会认为这是一棵枯树，但我认为，它的根还活着。

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Root out bust, enclosed under dry and ridges, ridges held in fields, so have the language of banyan wood pour root.

根出半身，附干而下垄，垄抱持以入土，故有榕木倒生根之语。

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Make up water in the skin, then put on the table water evaporated quickly, root wood don't have time to let the nutrient to permeate to the layer of skin.

化妆水搽在皮肤表而后，水分会迅速蒸发，根木没有时间让养分渗透至皮肤里层。

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The Pingwings were knitted penguin puppets who lived in Firmin's barn while The Pogles lived in a tree-root in a wood.

BBC: Oliver Postgate & Bagpuss

The title of his first exhibition devoted to this material, "Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art" (1914) captures both the innovation and the contradictions of this debut.

WSJ: Americans' African Inspiration | African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Michael FitzGerald