Sentences with phrase «crown as our tree»

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The Airstream Park, as it's called, occupies about half a city block, surrounded by a tall fence crowned with barbed wire and punctuated with palm trees.

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

«Perhaps not surprisingly, we found root systems to be every bit as diverse as the crowns of trees, a morphological diversity that is important to understand as it suggests a more thorough exploitation of belowground resources,» said Hall.

The trees (the crown of an adult is shown) have cones, which mark them as pines, but they also have a unique, spongy bark.

Today the 380 - foot titans of Northern California are the tallest trees on Earth, and as old as the Parthenon.Until recently their unexplored crowns were thought to be largely devoid of life.

This map of Puerto Rico shows highest forest damage and tree mortality impact areas in with darker tones of red indicating more intense forest disturbance as tree mortality and crown damage.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new paper published today in the Natural Areas Journal indicates that bark beetle outbreaks that have turned millions of acres of forests in the Inter-mountain West a noticeable red coloration (from tree death) do not substantially increase the risk of active crown fire in lodgepole pine and spruce forests as commonly assumed.

That the fruit of our lives, as the fruit of our trees, be the perfect attainment, the crowning glory of a life dedicated to Thee.

It joins a traditional sister list of the year's 50 Best Released Films, which crowned Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life as the movie of the year.

Described in the brochures as «Iririki, Island of Elegance» and lying snugly in Port Vila's blue harbour, its forty - four acres were crowned with flowering trees and contoured like a tall polychromic hat; you could walk the shadowy path around its brim in twenty minutes.

In a Nutshell: A tree's root system grows throughout its life, often growing as large, if not larger, than even its crown.

Bosch Hoek Lodge is located in the picturesque Midlands of KwaZulu - Natal, set in a tranquil setting surrounded by diverse shrubbery and trees as well as inquisitive vervet monkeys, grey - crowned cranes, bushbuck and...

The finding that competition overwhelmed the change in tree vital rates in our study can be explained by tree competition for limiting resources, particularly for light and crown space and also possibly for water and other nutrients through root competition as stands developed over time.

The current year rings are supplied by the crown (volume of leaves), which usually reaches an asymptotic size as the tree matures.

• Another process, known as crown thinning, is the removal of selected branches from the tree's crown to allow more light to pass through and decrease wind resistance, which will help the tree weather storms.

The Junk Gypsies outfitted their tree with metallic accessories including a thrifted bass drum, which they fashioned as a tree stand, and a gold crown used as a tree topper.

>> Prince George celebrated his first Christmas early, with all the trimmings of a royal event — an elaborate Christmas tree, corgis and a fake crown as a gift.

With it we are using «White Cotton», an HGTV color from Sherwin Williams mixed by SW for ceilings, and for crown molding, trim, doors (a crisp white with a hint of gray) Passive is so refreshing, and has a chameleon quality, morphing as the day goes on, depending on the light, sometimes a hint of blue gray, then clear gray, and occasionally a hint of green in the rooms that are in shade from trees.