Sentences with phrase «cedar trees grow»
As cedar trees grow, they inhale carbon dioxide.
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Western red cedar doesn't grow in saltwater; these trees had presumably been killed when forest meadows subsided following an earthquake and were swamped with saltwater.
We're told that his understanding of nature was so exact that he could select the tree, specifically a cedar tree, or a kind of cedar tree, that in the course of one - hundred and twenty years, once planted, could grow to the height of fifty meters, which is the measure he needed for the construction of the Ark. - Aaron Tendler, Noah and the Ark, Voyage to a New Beginning
I might come up with more data in a while, but just to give one extreme example — a cedar tree (Thuja occidentalis) typically lives but a few decades, but where it is forced to grow extremely slowly (on cliffs), it can reach thousand years of age.