Sentences with phrase «old trees grow»

Older trees grow more slowly, sequestering less, and CO2 is emitted by dying trees and detritus, thereby creating more of a CO2 balance than a CO2 sponge.

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The tree gives and gives and gives, and the boy takes; and, as he grows, he continues to take, right on through adolescence, manhood, and old age.

Young bushes and trees grow, and grasses spread again in areas that were once dominated by old, dead growth.

One of the great pleasures of our garden is the old, gnarly plum tree growing in the southwest corner of our yard.

The date fruit is one of the oldest cultivated tree crops, and has been grown for thousands of years.

Claire from Under the Blue Gum Tree, who always wows me with her creative bakes, happened to have an old bottle of this blackcurrant liqueur, which is just as well as fresh blackcurrants probably don't even grow in South Africa, never mind in winter!

The new cuban version of making Cuban pork is with cilantro and mint but the traditional Old School pork would never use cilantro that's used by those of Mexican decent we would use sour orange instead of the O.j. and Lime but if you can't grow your own sour orange tree or buy them fresh at the Latin market the o.j. and lime are a great substitute.

The name American Oak refers to the 100 year old oak trees (of the Quercus alba species) grown in the North American mountains which are used to make the bourbon casks., which will eventually be used to age this new Auchentoshan Scotch whisky expression.

I grew up in the country with a huge old bramley apple tree in my garden and a neighbour who supplied us with all manner of fresh fruits, so myself and delicious fruit crumbles were by no means unacquainted up until this point.

We also pick off the old apple trees, wild plums and wild grapes along the roadsides and the ranch where I grew up.

We are the parents of a severely food allergic college age son, Morgan, first diagnosed at the age of 9 months old with life threatening allergies to peanuts, (tree nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish came later); and a grown daughter, Michaela, diagnosed with celiac disease and a mast cell mediated disorder.

Even though the science says that the amount of lead absorbed by plants varies widely (spinach and sunflowers = leady, apple trees and tomatoes = not leady), and even though every study on children who play in the dirt and eat homegrown food (my eight - year - old daughter included) has come back saying that there is no evidence of elevated bodily lead levels, people around here are petrified about growing their own vegetables, and even of letting their kids play in the mud.

What I did was post on Kijiji looking for a young girl who would take the huge pile of out - grown clothing of my daughter's (instead of consignment which was the plan) as well as some books, small toys (some still unopened) and our old, yet still perfect, table top Christmas tree.

Pam McLaughlin grew up down the road, and has been coming to the Big Tree Inn since «I was old enough to drink.»

It's amazing that a 200 year - old living oak tree can survive and grow using only the support of a very thin layer of tissue beneath the bark.

Clinging to its rocky soil are some of the oldest trees in the western United States — slow - growing whitebark pines, the oldest dating back more than a millennium.

«Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age.»

In 2007 U.S. Geological Survey scientists analyzing mangrove roots and soil up to 8,000 years old found that during periods of rising sea level, the roots grow faster and bolster the soil, which helps hoist the tree upward.

In 2010, Pederson and coauthor Amy Hessl, a tree - ring scientist at West Virginia University, were studying wildfires in Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountains.

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live to be more than 5,000 years old, stand where young limber pine grow around it.

The oldest and biggest trees in the study — those with rings spanning 150 years — might have had extra advantages in their youth, like extra light, that allowed them to grow more vigorously.

There is a noticeable absence of small trees — big, old cottonwoods can be seen, some of them fallen, but no little ones growing up to replace them.

«Fossils from the world's oldest trees reveal complex anatomy never seen before: Intricate web of woody strands inside 374 - million - year - old tree trunks point to most complicated trees to have ever grown on Earth.»

Sound public policy would (a) protect old forests, (b) grow young forests into older forests (aka, longer rotations), and (c) when logging, retain significant residual trees both live and dead.

Like the piece of grass that grows between the cracks of pavement, the endless swell crashing to the shore or the huge swaying trees in an old growth forest.

The baobab tree (Adansonia Digitata L.) grows plentifully in Africa and is often referred to as the «Ancient Tree of Life» since some of these trees have been reported to be up to 1000 years tree (Adansonia Digitata L.) grows plentifully in Africa and is often referred to as the «Ancient Tree of Life» since some of these trees have been reported to be up to 1000 years Tree of Life» since some of these trees have been reported to be up to 1000 years old.

She was 16 years old at the time and grew up to be a sales manager for an apple tree nursery.

Growing up we lived in older neighborhoods with huge trees which meant huge piles of leaves each fall.

These «bracket fungus» grow on old trees and indicate that their is some decay in the tree.

You can see how there is some decay growing in this old maple tree and the conk -LSB-...]

Of the three competition films I've seen thus far (Tale of Tales and Sea of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-...]

Mother Nature's the star, though Tree Of Life's exceptional moppet performances are heralded by 16 - year - old Linda Manz, guilelessly narrating the grown - ups» (including Richard Gere) fall into a treacherous three - way romance.

Vocabulary development doesn't happen overnight; with food and water, vocabulary will slowly grow like a big, old oak tree reaching up to the sky.

Maybe he'd plant it in the ground to grow a big old baseball tree.

This book contains all the Christmas books and stories written by Dickens.The Christmas Books: - A Christmas Carol - The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainThe Christmas Stories: - A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older - The Poor Relation's Story - The Child's Story - The Schoolboy's Story - Nobody's Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly - Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary - The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society - A Message From the Sea - Tom Tiddler's Ground - Somebody's Luggage - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings - Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare...

Grand old trees extend their leaves and grow a little bit each year while new seedlings race quickly toward the sky.

As for stock markets, an old friend used to say trees don't grow to the sky.

Bankruptcy does nothing to my private loans and older folks need to understand that before passing judgment on students — students of parents like them who don't have money that grows on trees or lavish inheritances.

Some of these trees are over 3 meters high, which means they have to be over 300 years old: the tree grows only 1 cm every year.

Her dad, Drew «Tree» Gottshall, a 44 - year - old Park Service maintenance worker, knows it's tough for a kid to take it easy on the trails and grow up without playmates.

It is dwarfed by old coconut palm trees also growing there.

These days, I tend the same garden that I grew up in and seek shade under the old magnolia tree — my childhood friend who never left town.

In her solo project Hollow places court in Ash - Tree Wood, Jessica Stockholder has made several works from the wood of a 125 - year - old ash tree that formerly grew in the Aldrich's sculpture garTree Wood, Jessica Stockholder has made several works from the wood of a 125 - year - old ash tree that formerly grew in the Aldrich's sculpture gartree that formerly grew in the Aldrich's sculpture garden.

We see dense foliage enveloping an old car wash, and a grove of birch trees growing from the ashes of books in a former storage facility, speaking not only to the forces of decomposition but also to the power of transformation and renewal.

The red, cream, and tawny stone cubes meld with the old battered floors, the square panes of glass, and the verdant trees nearby, as if they had grown there.

The spiritual and cultural significance of growing miniature bonsai trees derives from a thousand - year - old horticultural tradition in Japan, representing a careful, contemplative and Zen - influenced relationship between humans and nature.

My uncle grows an olive tree for fun (several hundred years old)-- frost - shielded by a tent in winter (which might not be neccessary since it has passed several years of travel and adaption).

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life - long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

It would be very useful to see how sensitive the shape is tree age — we'd see how the snake bends as its bones grow older...»

He built a stunning tree house to commemorate the loss of a favourite Cedar of Lebanon, and new sprouts are growing out of the original old stump.