Sentences with phrase «as dead plant»

Donald Sultan is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists, known for his large — scale, «catastrophic - event» paintings that incorporate nontraditional materials such as Dead Plant, November 1, 1988, as well as his sensuous charcoal drawings of iconic presentations and abstract depictions of fruit such as Black Lemons, May 20, 1985, both in the Modern's collection.

Heather was found to have a particularly helpful role in keeping carbon locked in as dead plant litter, and in reducing the numbers of worms below ground which would otherwise break down the plant material more quickly.

But it's been hard to measure exactly how much of the nitrate comes from fertilizer, rather than other sources such as dead plants and soil.

Not exact matches

This kind of rebranding makes about as much sense as claiming that, since it's based on long dead plants that originally got their energy from the sun, oil is actually solar power.

We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.

This condition causes both decreased yields and visible symptoms, such as distorted leaves, abnormally colored leaves, dead tissue, mottled or mosaic leaves or fruit, stunted plants, or curled leaves.

It snowed in Baltimore while we were gone, and when I got back, my hot pepper plants were as dead as can be.

Jacquin, who first described the species as «chinense» in his work, Hortus botanicus vindobonensis, wrote, mysteriously, «I have taken the plant's name from its homeland,» which was dead wrong.

The truth about Britain's current nuclear programme is that the dream of numerous new plants coming on - stream, funded by investors and assisted by favourable planning and development arrangements, is as good as dead.

Those dead trees and plants later burned as a result.

Fungi are the primary decomposers of dead plant and animal matter in many ecosystems, and are commonly seen on old bread as mold.

In forest ecosystems, cockroaches are known as important decomposers that consume dead and decaying plants.

It remains unclear whether tropical forests, such as those of the Amazon or Congo, produce the same effect, due to much faster decomposition of dead plant matter in these climes.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

They then selectively removed different plant species such as heather, cotton grass and moss enabling them to study the effects of both warming and vegetation change on carbon release from the dead plant material into the atmosphere.

By contrast, ours would qualify as a Type 0 civilization, deriving its energy from dead plants — oil and coal.

For example, bacteria in soil release nitrogen and phosphorus as they break down dead plants, and so these microbes could increase the amount of available nitrogen and phosphorus.

When these bugs land on the plant, they get stuck on its sticky, hairy surface (as with the beetle pictured above) and die, coating the columbine with dead bodies.

decay The process (also called «rotting») by which a dead plant or animal gradually breaks down as it is consumed by bacteria and other microbes

In nature, these fungi serve as a catalyst — speeding decomposition and ridding the planet of megatons of dead plant matter.

Chlorophyll is essentially the essence of a plant's «greenness», and since the fact that green vegetables are healthy is common knowledge among the public, it's dead easy to sell as a health supplement.

Lactic, a type of alpha hydroxy acid derived from plants like sugar cane and beets, not only sloughs away dead skin cells to counter dullness, studies demonstrate that it tackles virtually every other sign of aging as well.

It's hard to ignore the subject as more research around the benefits of plant - based diets is released — and as more documentaries like What the Health, Food Matters, Forks Over Knives and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead are added to Netflix.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

While Kingsman's London - set pub brawls might not quite share the quality of amiable social comment as say Shaun of the Dead, its tongue is almost always firmly, entertainingly planted in its cheek.

The following are included: Inventors of materials Materials and forces Properties of materials Plants Staying healthy Basic needs for survival How animals change as they grow Habitats Microhabitats The ocean The seashore Woodlands Rainforest animals Food chains Minibeasts Reptiles Is it alive, dead or has never been alive?

Entering into her stories, one becomes part of a world in which the dead appear to the living as apparitions and energy presences, speak to the living in dreams, and manifest themselves symbolically through butterflies and plants, bugs, and birds.

They can water the plants as needed, pluck off dead leaves or pull up weeds whenever they sprout up.

Since dogs naturally eat natural items they find outdoors such as a dead animal or plant which causes gastrointestinal irritation, they are prone to diarrhea.

They can also be derived from «4 - D» meat sources — defined as food from animals that have been rejected for human consumption because they were presented to the meat packing plant as «dead, dying, diseased or disabled.»

In many cases, by - product meals are derived from «4 - D» meat sources — defined as food animals that have been rejected for human consumption because they were presented to the meat packing plant as «Dead, Dying, Diseased or Disabled.»

In many cases, by - product meals are derived from «4 - D» meat sources [citation needed] â $» defined as food animals that have been rejected for human consumption because they were presented to the meat packing plant as «Dead, Dying, Diseased or Disabled.»

It is obtained when the meat processing plant has taken in a lot meat and food items (which include animals that could not be used to produce anything better such as dead and diseased ones), cooked them under high pressure and high temperature over and over again and finally created a grey goo which is of no use to anyone.

As the performers moved about the space in a random pattern of loose choreography, they sang the lines: «Who say you have to be a dead dog... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... And it comes down, it comes down, well it comes down, and it comes down, it comes it comes... Scores of blood and fire and freeways, I am going to get my share... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... Who say you have to be a dead dog...» Handling each other's bodies with as much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancAs the performers moved about the space in a random pattern of loose choreography, they sang the lines: «Who say you have to be a dead dog... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... And it comes down, it comes down, well it comes down, and it comes down, it comes it comes... Scores of blood and fire and freeways, I am going to get my share... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... Who say you have to be a dead dog...» Handling each other's bodies with as much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancas much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancas the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancas high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancas Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performancas she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performance.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

So to the fires burning in Russia will have worldwide effects as the torched peat bogs whose layers consist of dead plant materials will end up releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air accelerating the greenhouse effect and making the air nearly unbreathable.

Biomass - The total mass of living organisms in a given area or volume; dead plant material can be included as dead biomass.

Peat - Peat is formed from dead plants, typically Sphagnum mosses, which are only partially decomposed due to the permanent submergence in water and the presence of conserving substances such as humic acids.

All these dead and dried - out plants then act as tinder, igniting when the heat soars or lightning strikes or a careless cigarette butt is tossed in the wrong direction.

Town of Oswego rallied to save Fitzpatrick nuclear plant after most everyone else had given it up as dead.

Dead plant material is incorporated into soils, eventually to be decomposed by microorganisms and then respired back into the atmosphere as CO2.

When water loses most of its oxygen, it creates areas referred to as «dead zones,» where most marine plants and animals can not survive.

As water flows downward from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Dead Sea it will produce enough hydro - electricity to power the desalination plants that are to be built near the Dead Sea.

By 2002, sulphur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants were 40 per cent lower than they had been in 1980, as new life crept back into the continent's dead - zone lakes.

Methane and carbon dioxide are both produced in thawing permafrost as dead animal and plant remains decompose.

As I've said before and will continue to say until we stop opening corn ethanol plants, corn ethanol is a dead end and of limited utility as even an intermediary step towards better biofuelAs I've said before and will continue to say until we stop opening corn ethanol plants, corn ethanol is a dead end and of limited utility as even an intermediary step towards better biofuelas even an intermediary step towards better biofuels.

Meanwhile, «nuclear is dead» think pieces mushroomed in the press as old plants closed and new projects floundered in delays and cost over-runs.

For example, visitors to the park at the Square Auguste - Renoir were at first unhappy about the idea of putting dead leaves back under live plants, seeing it as a messy solution; in the past the leaves were carted away.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).