Sentences with phrase «men plant trees»

They say the sign of a great people is when the old men plant trees for a forest they'll never see.

A society grows great when men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit, and companies grow great when the leadership looks unselfishly towards the future.

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One example of the picturesque characters is found in Ps 1:3 a man is likened to a tree planted by the water which will not be moved.

Yeah, that soul that Aristotel and his pal Plato assured was in every thing, not only men, but plants, flowers, trees, etc..

It is said that you can not teach anyone what they do not know already; and Jesus, being a good teacher, has reached back into the tradition that he shares with the young man and pointed out what both of them know: If you would be like a tree planted by rivers of water, learn to know, love, and obey the Law of God.

The good man in the Psalms is compared to «a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in due season.»

The same way snow tracks indicated a false sense of security to my brother and I as we considered whether to maneuver our snow - skis through the trees, eventually ending in a face plant, texting and social media direct messaging indicate a false sense of security to married men and women.

Plenty of people were prepared to swallow reports of man - eating trees and bloodthirsty blooms, but naturalists had more trouble accepting the idea that plants could be carnivores.

There are plants that share human DNA and result in growths of eerie, man - like tree structures and animals that retain and replicate the screams of the victims they've killed.

The explanation ultimately given for the mysterious happenings is that plants and trees have evolved and are giving off an invisible spore to kill off their natural enemy — namely man.

There are also suggested activities like an assembly based around the book, The Man Who Planted Trees.

Most sponsors use motivational quotes, such as this gem: «A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants trees under which he full well knows he will never sit.»

This year's community production, based on Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, will be performed in the school theatre on 24

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This year's community production, based on Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, will be performed in the school theatre on 24th March.

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The Green Belt Movement tells the story of how an organisation grew from one woman's idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya.

An often forgotten fact is that Palm Beach is man - made and the majority of the palm trees on it were planted by the resorts — so it's not exactly a natural Caribbean beach.

All 72 men in the village participated in clearing the undergrowth beneath the coconut palms and other trees and they planted crops of cassava, beans and aubergines.

The latter collages, among other things, footage of the dynamite - damaged The Thinker (Auguste Rodin, 1880 — 81) in front of the The Cleveland Museum of Art, non-native plant life in Los Angeles and the oak tree given to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Munich Olympics, over a looped and mixed refrain of «I was born a loser» from Alton Ellis's «Blackman's World» (1969), which transforms into «I was born a winner», the chorus of the song's later version, «Black Man's Pride» (1971).

As a leader of the Naikai Community Water Project, she'd been working to coordinate water - use and well - drilling, but the man on the motorcycle asked if members of her group would be interested in planting trees — lots of them — in their cornfields and cabbage patches.

Additionally, women tend to play a greater role than men in natural resource management — farming, planting, protecting and caring for seedlings and small trees — and in ensuring nutrition and as care providers for their families.

Biomass power plants do emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, but they release no more than what is naturally in the carbon cycle as trees are planted, downed — by man or nature — and replanted.

In an effort to bring a bit of green back to the small city of Pires do Rio, a local priest has begun telling churchgoers that the only way to get square with the man upstairs and cleanse themselves of sin isn't through prayer, but by getting their hands dirty planting trees.

In a calorie - burning 3,900 - kilometre cycle journey from one end of India to another, a man plans to raise awareness and to gather pledges to plant more trees worldwide.

I mean their idea that man's influence on climate is negative can be mitigated by man's influence creating positive, so surely, even in their world, man does positive, like for instance planting trees.

His story was chronicled in last year's The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet, by science writer Jim Robbins.