Sentences with phrase «often see the trees»

«This may help to explain why such individuals often see the trees but miss the forest,» explains Swinburne's David Crewther, the study's lead author.

Cats often see trees as fabulous climbing posts.

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The institute generates about six terabytes of data a day, and it often falls on Wang to see the forest through the trees.

We're often too close to our own problems to see the forest for the trees.

Second, legislators often fail to see the forest of other businesses behind the huge Google and Facebook trees.

It's not always easy to see the forest for the trees... but the devil is often in the details.

I don't know whether you would call it prayer, but I often contemplate, become the sun - fired tree I gaze at, become the music while the music lasts, lose myself in the dancing lights of a wooded stream or the rosy tops of thunderclouds seen from the window of a rocketing 747.

Steve Sullivan, Senior Curator of Urban Ecology at Notebaert Nature Museum: When you're flying along as a bird during the day and you see a pane of glass in front of you, that glass is often reflecting trees and sky.

The placenta is often referred to as «the tree of Life» and this is evident when you see the beautiful prints.

They often evade discovery by running to the opposite side of the tree before being noticed, an escape tactic also seen in many tree dwelling lizards.

But although clear - cutting is plain to see, partial logging is often obscured by remaining trees and green vegetation.

The snake was seen in the same tree two days later — normal behaviour for boas, which often wait in one spot for as long as a month.

Often times, you can just see 50 to 70 species here in a morning, maybe more, you know, during the height of migration and I've been here where there's been thousands of white - throated sparrows, for example, just passing through the tree tops on a spring morning, you know, really important.

It's important to every so often take a step back and see how all of those trees comprise the forest as a whole.

Getting muddy, climbing trees, or collecting insects are often seen as boys» activities, influencing children's lifelong connections with nature.

So to celebrate the beautiful weather I wore my beautiful top from Stella Forest and white chinos from IKKS, I don't often wear white but when we saw these beautiful pink trees I knew I had to!

You see, I've spent the past decade plumbing the depths of how to make eco-friendly living attractive and accessible to the mainstream, to crush the crunchy and difficult stereotype of being a tree - hugger, and one of the many things I've found is that, when it comes to groceries and our food budgets, more sustainable behaviors can result in big - time money savings (and often even better health and well - being).

He never does interviews, barely ever lets himself be seen in public, and he makes strange editing decisions, often editing the majority of an actor's performance out of the movie... And with The Tree of Life, he yet again delivers something baffling.

It's also about knowing that as authors we often can't see the forest for the trees.

This all sounds so simple when I look back, and I feel like a bit of a goose, but often you are so close to your writing that you can't see the forest for the trees.

The phrase can't see the wood for the trees is most often used in a reflective situation framed by the word «I didn't, or «we couldn't», rather than «we can't» or «we don't», because it's generally only after we mess something up beyond repair that we realise we were focussing on a small and perhaps unimportant element of a larger whole the entire time.

Being overwhelmed often means not being able to see the forest for the trees which is where professionals help realign your financial focus.

This is highly applicable to real estate, as it's often easy to focus on one single factor and forget to see the forest over one tree.

We often see cats staring out the window at a bird at the feeder or a squirrel in a tree and making the most adorable chirping noise.

Seeing as there are often tree limbs, rocks and other obstructions on the side of the road, allowing your dog to stick its head out while driving can expose it to unnecessary dangers.

Often we can not see the forest for the trees and we need an outsider to look at a situation in a different light.

I often saw, in Somalia, lone camels munching on thorny acacia trees or standing, regal, in the middle of a road.

«I had no idea my hometown tree was in jeopardy until I saw John's post, and then we jumped on it,» says Irene Rhodes of Consumer Fire Products, Inc. «How often do you get an opportunity to give an entire town a Christmas tree?»

Visitors to the island will often see goats grazing beneath the island's trees.

It is not unusual to see a family of howler monkeys traveling from tree to tree, often times they can be seen napping the afternoon away in the tree right above the pool.

You can also often see a few monkeys playing in the trees nearby.

So to celebrate the beautiful weather I wore my beautiful top from Stella Forest and white chinos from IKKS, I don't often wear white but when we saw these beautiful pink trees I knew I had to!

The various rainforest reptiles visitors love to see include Boyd's forest dragon, often seen on rainforest trees, eastern water dragons, and the elegant amethystine pythons.

The frogs are also a favorite find and you're likely to see different tree frogs throughout the rainforest, often clinging to the rainforest's leaves.

The white - throated capuchin monkeys are often spotted swaying from the trees and sloths are quietly seeing cozy lying on branches.

Too often I found it was having a hard time keeping up with the action, and many times I'd find it stuck at an angle that positioned it behind a tree or rock, leaving me able to see next to nothing of what was going on.

Being an RPG, Origins looks to have a skill tree you'd often see in games like Skyrim or The Witcher, with multiple paths to take and different specialisations.

Instead, you're supposed to just check the skill tree every so often to see if any points are waiting to be assigned.

The undertaking often assumes form on the canvas as a solitary figure, shown in some sort of apparent psychic strife, in a fantastic if recognizably equatorial landscape: a slab of a man dwarfed by the tower of audio speakers on which he stands (Maracas, 2002 — 2008), a figure on whom cloisonné blooms from an overhanging tree collect (House of Flowers [See You There], 2007 — 2009).

Minor though the tree might seem, both institutionally (it's generally seen as a bit of seasonal frippery on the part of the Tate) and artistically (it's often an opportunity for artists to do a bit of festive self - mockery), there's something here of a piece with the choice of Richard Wright as this year's Turner Prize winner: a shift of institutional focus, maybe.

The artist's paintings are best described as wooded landscapes, but the buildings and bridges of cities can often be seen through tree's branches, giving the impression that figures have wandered just beyond an urban environment.

Indeed, one often sees skeptics clutching at «proxies» that are far, far more shaky than precise measures of tree growth, such as medieval vineyards.

Huffingtonpost: Growing up in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, I would often see crows perched on nearby trees and on the rooftops of our homes.

It's important to every so often take a step back and see how all of those trees comprise the forest as a whole.

And as I used to see every summer, the combination of all of these factors means that the trees up near the treeline are often visibly stressed, branch tips turning brown, far into the downhill side of the inverse parabola, while trees a few hundred metres lower were doing fine at essentially the same temperature.

These are commonly available trees, so if increasing biodiversity is important to you, other varieties that aren't widely available commercially or that are native to the area but not often seen in yards could be a much better choice.

6: Elderberry: Elderberries (Sambucus) are most often seen as shrubs, although varieties that grow more like a small tree are available, and their flowers and berries are good for pollinators and other wildlife, while the fruit is also prized for making jam, wine, pies, and other delicacies.

Often times you can't find those words simply because you aren't able to see the forest through the trees at that moment — and that moment can turn into months.

Often we get so used to our jobs that we can't see the wood for the trees.

He adds that 80 to 90 percent of them also ask for at least a few fruit trees, often dwarf - sized, alongside the growing interest he's seeing in edible vines.