Sentences with phrase «more than the trees»

Eventually, once people start losing more paper wealth, they will realise what paper really is worth — no more than the trees they are printed on.

Suddenly, the tree is more than a tree, it's a sapling with smooth bark, or it's a pine tree with rough bark and a sharp pine scent.

One sees changing views of Notre - Dame, from two successive studios and over fourteen years — and from from Post-Impressionism to a single blue crossed by little more than a tree, a flash of sunlight on stone, and the bare arc in black of a bridge or a quai.

Paleoclimatologists use more than tree - ring data.

Of course, humans were nothing more than tree - shrews at best, but we could adapt to that size again, I'm sure.

Regarding thermometers (and most of us use those more than tree bores) there is no decline to hide.

Phytoplankton biomass does not last forever, any more than tree biomass does.

2 - Scientists post explanation, [uea.ac.uk] showing the deniers» allegations to be baseless (The «hidden» decline in tree ring growth was published a decade ago - see Nature link above; in this very publication, it was shown to diverge from the actual instrumental record after 1960; so for the post-1960 period we basically replace tree rings with the actual instrumental data, because we trust thermometers more than tree rings when the two fail to agree; we cited the relevant articles in the caption for the graph just to be sure).

And the northern extent of a forest (like Yamal, which dropped southward in the last few centuries) tells us a whole lot more than the tree rings preserved in the forest.

Not exact matches

Hemp could help address climate change, since it absorbs four times more carbon dioxide than trees while growing in just a fraction of the time.

The company says it has more than 1.5 million listings - homes, apartments, guest rooms, even houseboats and tree houses - in more than 34,000 cities in 190 countries.

Although the toy tree frogs and the swinging Peruvian band might soften buyers, they won't bowl them over any more than the whiz - bang products did.

Rather, we accomplished more in the time the tree was being constructed than we typically do.

Real Christmas trees outsell the artificial variety — most of which are made in China — by more than three to one.

It takes more than 15,000 Christmas - tree farms to produce that annual harvest, most of them small, family - owned businesses with longstanding ties to their land.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

Revenue from Family Dollar — which has more stores than Dollar Tree — accounted for about 90 % of that gain; without that, Dollar Tree grew revenue by less than 9 %.

The two, then 33 and 38, drove sales but also got more responsibility than they could shake a tree at.

The discount retailer operates more than 5,000 stores under the names Dollar Tree, Deal $, Dollar Tree Deal $, Dollar Giant, and Dollar Bills.

The only thing more spectacular than the estate's one - of - a-kind design is its palm tree - dotted backyard.

ATTRACTIVELY landscaped verges and 200 - year old Tuart trees are attracting home buyers to Woodleigh Grove, where more than half the 42 blocks on offer have been sold to date.

Rossy's company now employs more than 12,000 retail staff, operates 1.4 million square feet of warehouse and is housed in an eco-friendly headquarters that boasts a heated outdoor patio, a fanciful life - size sculpture of penguins at play and multi-storey atrium complete with an orange tree.

We all plant seeds for shade trees under which we may never sit; however, H. Wayne Huizenga planted far more than most.

Ms. Winston previously served from 2012 until August 2015 as Executive Vice President — Chief Financial Officer of Family Dollar Stores, Inc., a discount retailer with more than 8,300 stores and nearly $ 11 billion in revenues prior to its acquisition by Dollar Tree in July 2015.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Using Epcot as a staging area to fill up their fuel before they head out, thousands of power trucks and tree trimming trucks prepared for their journey to restore power to the more than 6 million customer in Florida who lost it after Hurricane Irma.

More whites (81 %) and Hispanics (82 %) than blacks (65 %) say they intend to put up a tree.

Erecting a Christmas tree is, however, somewhat more common among high - income earners (86 % among those earning $ 75,000 or more) than among those with lower household incomes (75 % among those earning less than $ 30,000).

Part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Yasuní has more species of trees in a single hectare than all of the US and Canada combined and has more species per hectare of birds, amphibians, mammals, shrubs, and insects than anywhere else in the world.

A powerful dust storm and rain swept parts of north and western India overnight, causing house collapses, toppling trees and leaving at least 91 people dead and more than 160 injured, officials said Thursday.

Family Dollar shares jumped more than 20 percent after the announcement, while Dollar Tree shares rose slightly.

Though offerings and consumer demographics at the stores differ — Dollar Tree operates with fixed dollar - and - below prices, while Family Dollar's introduction of more name brand products has led prices to «creep up» — both sell more than 50 percent consumable goods, such as chips and cereal, Sozzi said.

Despite more construction underway in Coffey Park, large sections of the Santa Rosa neighborhood remain little more than charred trees and empty lots, as residents face challenges working with their insurance companies.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

But thanks to one local teen, a few yogurt containers, and a makeshift rooftop garden, more than 400 trees have now been saved and replanted.

And they worried continually at what he might come up with, as in his remark in 1981 that «trees cause more pollution than automobiles» (a claim that scientists more than two decades later discovered to be not entirely off - base).

you are merely stating that these actions have an impact, then you aren't really saying much, since that impact proceeded deterministically from the conditions that existed, and «he» didn't do anything more than what a tree does when it falls in the woods.

(Occasionally, a community becomes so toxic that we need to walk away, but often staying and allowing our roots to descend yields more fruit than transplanting the tree.)

Already you can breed a dog that is more adapt at climbing trees than other dogs.

The tree will be far more likely to grow correctly than if it is misshapen.

On a side note, I'm more interested in following Jesus, reading the bible and praying, than I am in traditions with trees, bunnies and eggs.

Mimivirus is so much more genetically complex than all previously known viruses, not to mention a number of bacteria, that it throwing our whole conception of the branching «tree of life» into disarray.

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

«More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep,» Obama said at the tree lighting ceremony, a longstanding White House tradition.

Thats fine as long as the christmas tree is more than 33 feet tall.just like u should never fly another nations flag above the american flag america was built by christians and their religion should never be dwarfed by another.

«Look at the trees» is not evidence of your god, any more than it's evidence of Zeus.

The greensward is more than a nice touch: Gilead in the Old Testament is a scenic grazing area (remembered in the Song of Songs for its goats), and its famous trees produced a highly prized medicinal balm, absurdly recalled in the Handmaid's longing for prohibited hand lotion.

In the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallen.