Sentences with phrase «concrete as a tree»

These «habits» are chemical and structural in nature; they're as real and concrete as a tree or a rug or a skin cell.

Not exact matches

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that crushed concrete balconies, twisted metal gates and paralyzed the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slowly rebuild amid an economic crisis as rescue crews fanned out across the U.S. territory Thursday.

«We plant trees in the town and bungalows in the country,» complained the architect Clough Williams - Ellis, «thus averaging England out into a dull uneventfulness whereby one place becomes much the same as any other - all incentive to exploration being thus removed as the great network of smoothed - out concrete roads is completed.»

As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effecAs the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effecas the urban heat island effect.

As we drove north on the 710 freeway from Long Beach to Los Angeles, Ursula K. Le Guin noted how the isolated palm trees in the distance, poking their dry and dusty heads over the concrete embankment along the road, created the impression of a landscape from another planet or, perhaps, time.

Although cats can cling to the bark of trees with their claws, other surfaces are much more difficult, such as window ledges, concrete or brick surfaces.

A concrete jungle it might be but it is also regarded as one of the greenest cities in Africa — a veritable urban forest with around 10 million trees and green spaces, the most popular of which is a real family gem — the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens.

It is an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as (soil, rock, trees, branches, leaves and water) with introduced materials (concrete, metal or asphalt).

LIU WEI As Long As I See It - No. 1, 2006 Pine trees, iron, concrete telegraph pole, Polaroid photographs 196.85 x 118.1 x 55.1 inches 500 x 300 x 140 cm

Tree - like columns filled with leaves and stones invoke the tribal iconography of nature while serving as a counter balance for the crocheted architecture - bringing together the tradition of the Brazilian Neo Concrete movement with the rituals of Brazil's indigenous cultures.

Martin Boyce, whose installations are inspired by concrete trees, is also shortlisted, as is George Shaw, who only uses enamel paint in his work.

In fact, Art New York conjured Art Miami so strongly that it felt as if towering palm trees, balmy weather and a row of art fairs waited outside instead of lines of taxis and concrete stanchions dividing the pier's entrance from the roaring West Side Highway and its heavy traffic.

The second sculptor in the shortlist, Martin Boyce, creates installations inspired by concrete trees made for a 1925 modernist exhibition which are described as «evoking the urban landscape».

Working with materials such as metal, concrete and wood, his minimal forms are often recognisable as furniture, municipal structures and trees.

Carbon - removal strategies, as the name implies, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it through various means, such as in soils, trees, underground reservoirs, rocks, the ocean and even products like concrete and carbon fiber.

I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and — to return to my first instance — toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable, and that by preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.»

CLT also has a lighter carbon footprint as wood products continue to store carbon absorbed by the trees while growing, and engineered wood manufacturing requires significantly less energy to produce than concrete and steel.

One argument for planting trees up north in Sweden has been that it might increase wood as building material instead of concrete... and that would lower co2 emissions... any one tried to make that point in this debate?

Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service.

As a concrete example, the chapter focuses on the Northern Hemisphere annual mean surface temperature reconstructed from annually resolved proxies such as tree ringAs a concrete example, the chapter focuses on the Northern Hemisphere annual mean surface temperature reconstructed from annually resolved proxies such as tree ringas tree rings.