Sentences with phrase «as the grass grew»

In Lyons» words, «As long as the grass grows green, water flows downhill, and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the wampum belt has meaning.»

And just as grass grows through cracks in real concrete, small communities and individuals will start to appear through the metaphorical concrete of our industrial civilization.

Their intent was to leave it for 6 weeks and let the public watch as the grass grew and then died.

Not exact matches

As a kid growing up in the 1960's, I earned my allowance the usual way; cutting grass and raking leaves.

This conceptualization is result - oriented and sees communication as producing effects, much as fertilizer grows grass or cue balls knock eight balls.

Rye berries grow as a grass closely related to wheat and barley.

When he saw that the grass grew as high as the belly of his saddle horse, he knew he had discovered land that was worth homesteading.

Came across to this link when I was doing some research on kosher grass fed meats in the Los Angeles area as I had been getting it through Kol Foods and Grow & Behold Buying Club... this is a great resource link!

Wood Sorrel (also commonly referred to as sour grass) is one of the most approachable of edible weeds, and one that is very easy to identify, often growing in large patches.

The grass wasn't up to his standard though as he said it was «undergrown and not full body» because the area isn't good for growing grass.

Over the past 18 months farmer Phillip Jennings has meticulously grown and groomed a mix of perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass and bermuda grass on his 3,000 - acre spread, and that turf will now serve as the playing surface for Super Bowl XXXIX.

And it's just as well — the nets were falling apart, and grass was growing in the cracks in the concrete.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

The Newcastle game was about as entertaining as watching grass grow.

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Farms hosting our tour included Front Porch Farm, who grow a variety of vegetables as well as grass - fed beef; and Riverview Orchard who grow peaches, nectarines, apples, cherries, and have a coffee roasting business!

The park, located on Ogden Avenue, will open as soon as the ground becomes firm and grass starts to grow in the spring, La Grange Park District Executive Director Dean Bissias said.

For any mother snuggling a baby against her body, nuzzling her face into her infant's baby - fine hair and smelling that sweet newborn breath, research to show that mothers and babies feel best when they are close to each other is about as necessary as research to show that grass will grow if it rains.

Animals born in factories shipped out to huge farms which are overcrowded, deprived of sunlight and in their own filth and fed extra hormones to make them grow larger and more quickly, chicken given extra laying mash to make them lay more eggs per day and a primary diet of corn which is a filler when these animals should all be living on grass as a primary chickens with a mix of bugs for protein.

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By 1987, Indian and Pakistani troops were engaged in active combat in a wasteland where «even grass does not grow,» as former Pakistani military ruler General Ziaul Haq famously remarked about Siachen.

Mike Hardy, a member of BASC Council and chairman of BASC's Scottish committee, said: «As the first green shoots of the 2017 growing season begin to appear it is not just the livestock that are looking forward to the taste of fresh green grass.

Two local Liberal Democrat parties have called on Nick Clegg to quit, as part of a growing grass - roots campaign to oust the Lib Dem leader.

Frost: On a night when the temperature dipped below the frost point, this blade of grass from Bearden Mountain, West Virginia, served as an organic post onto which ice crystals nucleated and grew.

In the Cauca Valley of western Colombia, a herd of hefty cows at Petequi farm munches away on lush grass that looks as if it has grown there forever.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase, it becomes easier for trees to gather carbon dioxide and gives them a growing advantage over grasses.

Shrubs like mesquite and creosote grow too far apart to sustain wildfires, but grass acts as kindling to move the flames from one shrub to the next.

In her experiment, Bybee - Finley found the grasses and legumes that grew at the same pace were more productive because they weren't competing for space and resources as much as plants that grew at different rates.

This year, heavy spring rains watered an abundance of cheatgrass, which blankets most rangeland, growing continuously between widely spaced native grasses such as sage.

Cattle stand nearly motionless as they graze on the thin grass, which grows slowly in the dry heat and high altitude.

In the Northwest, water shortages to the Great Basin region will lead to large reductions in irrigated forage, such as hay, grasses, and other crops grown to feed livestock.

«Shrubs did rather well under these conditions because of their growing response to annual precipitation, but the grasses declined as a result of their limited response to wet years,» said Sala.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

He also rules out soybeans and grasses and even sugarcane in places such as Brazil because rain forests are being destroyed solely to grow the fuel crop.

Reich and Hobbie found that from 2001 to 2010, grasses growing under heightened CO2 levels grew only half as much in untreated as in enriched nitrogen soils.

The reed can grow as high as 3 metres in one season, so local farmers call it «elephant grass».

Grasses stood out as a strong group, unaffected by flooding whether grown alone or in mixtures, while legumes (important nitrogen - fixing plants) were severely affected.

In contrast, the grasses and other flowers and plants that grow naturally when such lands are left fallow — species such as goldenrod, frost aster, and couch grass, among others — can deliver roughly the same amount of biofuel energy per hectare per year if fertilized, yet also reducing CO2 by more than twice as much as corn.

But yields from a grass that only needs to be planted once would deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every megajoule of petroleum consumed — in the form of nitrogen fertilizers or diesel for tractors — growing them.

The grasses grow from seedlings aboard the ISS, and are returned as frozen samples to Earth - based labs for detailed analysis and comparison with Earth - based control groups.

Because new circles appear in the short grass matrix without the tall grass perimeter, it seems likely that the bareness of circles, as of vehicle tracks, stimulates the tall grass to grow, perhaps because of reduced competition for water.

Grasses such as rice, wheat, maize and sorghum are important cereal crops grown in different parts of the world.

These long, long dry periods reached from California, where so much food originates, through to the plains states, where again, a lot of food is grown, or raised as meat on grasses.

Worse still is when agribusiness and geneticists change the seeds of grasses, with their genetic manipulations converting, for example, 4 - and - a-half-foot tall traditional wheat into 18 - inch tall high - yield semidwarf strains that now comprise 99 % of all wheat grown worldwide, or insert various genes for herbicide resistance, as in genetically modified corn.

Kids love the novelty of growing grass indoors, and as a bonus, grass is supposed to be great at cleaning indoor air.

What Dr. Price discovered about these special animal foods is that they are very rich in what he called fat - soluble activators, such as vitamin A and vitamin D, particularly when the animals they came from had been grazing on rich, rapidly growing green grass.

Springtime, after all, is the BEST time to do this fast as the rapidly growing spring grass in the unsprayed pastures where old fashioned, grassfed cows happily graze produces the most nutrient dense milk of the year.

It is found in certain fatty parts of animals that feed on young green growing plants or microorganisms, such as organ meats, fish and shellfish, fish eggs and butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass of spring and fall pasturage.

Pastured dairy — as in the kind that comes from cows, goats, or sheep eating rapidly growing green grass all day long — is a powerhouse of Vitamins A, D3, and K2 as well as choline.

By activators, he was referring to vitamins A and D, and what he called Activator X (now believed to be Vitamin K2), found only in certain sea foods such as shellfish, fish livers and fish eggs, in butterfat and organ meats from animals eating rapidly growing green grass, and in lesser amounts in eggs from pastured chickens and the fat of certain animals such as the guinea pig.