Sentences with phrase «oldest living thing»

There's a tree, called a bristle cone pine, which is the oldest living thing on earth.

Best in Nonfiction: Among nonfiction reads that released in 2014, my favorite included The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns (read the review here), The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman, God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines, and Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar (read the review here).

The Oldest Living Things in the World is a giant book that combines many of my favorite things: a compelling journey / quest narrative, beautiful photographs, and naturalism.

Dry, remote, and geologically stable, the site has one other serendipitous attribute — it is studded with bristlecone pines, the world's oldest living things.

At Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, we venture on a short hike through a magnificent forest of ancient coastal redwoods, the world's tallest and oldest living things.

I have long wanted to see the majestic California redwoods, one of the oldest living things in the world.

As the San Francisco Bay Area's population has swelled and the popularity of the beloved redwood grove has grown unabated, the visitation to Muir Woods — an ancient old - growth forest with some of the tallest and oldest living things on the planet — has sky - rocketed.

Next we stop to visit the Stromatolites (the oldest living things on the planet) and then on to Shell beach, probably the longest shell beach in the world for a refreshing dip.

(the oldest living things on the planet) and then on to Shell beach, probably the longest shell beach in the world for a refreshing dip.

Dead Huon Pine adjacent to living population segment # 1211 - 3609 (10,500 year old; Mount Read, Tasmania) from The Oldest Living Things in the World

The Oldest Living Things in the World travels to Bucknell University's Samek Art Museum from Jan 13th through March 22nd.

Her critically acclaimed, decade - long project «The Oldest Living Things in the World» combines art, science, and philosophy into a traveling exhibition and New York Times bestselling book.

About a year later, Sussman launched the Oldest Living Things in the World project, a series that has since taken her all over the world to photograph everything from 3,000 - year - old lichen to a 9,550 - year - old spruce to an 80,000 - year - old colony of aspen trees.

Join Rachel in conversation with Duane Griffin as they discuss the Oldest Living Things in the World.

She spent a decade developing the critically acclaimed project «The Oldest Living Things in the World,» for which she researches, works with biologists, and travels all over the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2000 years old and older.

Join me at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC for a lunchtime talk on The Oldest Living Things in the World.

The Oldest Living Things in the World Limited collectors edition with book box, first edition book, and print of Spruce Gran Picea # 0909 - 11A07 (9,550 years old; Dalarna, Sweden), 2014

Experience new exhibitions In Dubious Battle and Oldest Living Things in the World in a different light!

Be sure to pop by the @sfomuseum where selected prints from The Oldest Living Things in the World are on display!

The largest solo exhibition of Oldest Living Things in the World to date opens in the Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation on September 13th in beautiful Red Hook, Brooklyn!

A selection of her Oldest Living Things images will also be on view.

→ The Oldest Living Things in the World featured in the New York Times and New York Times Best Sellers list

THE OLDEST LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD Rachel Sussman, essays by Carl Zimmer and Hans Ulrich Obrist University of Chicago Press Price: $ 45 A bulbous green blob of flowering plants in the Chilean desert and a «living fossil» in Namibia that resembles a collapsed sea monster — these are a few of the organisms Rachel Sussman photographed for this fascinating book.

Rachel Sussman recently completed a critically acclaimed, decade - long project, «The Oldest Living Things in the World» that combines art, science, and philosophy into a traveling exhibition.

Rachel Sussman (Brooklyn, NY) spent nearly a decade developing the critically acclaimed project The Oldest Living Things in the World, researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are over 2,000 years old.

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«That was the first thing that crossed my mind — I was like, «Oh s — ,»» Rosie, a 30 - year - old DACA recipient who has lived in the US for 26 years, told Business Insider on Tuesday.

Once I learned all about the business side of things, the pair (who, by the way, have inside jokes and act like old friends), told me they were going to Google the next day to do a live Hangout video chat with the tech blog Mashable.

Often as we get older we get a little clearer about what we don't want in our life, perhaps more clear than we are about the things we do want.

It has stopped them doing so many things with their lives and they have grown old and bitter.

And another: «I have lived most of my life in southern Wisconsin where the Old Fashioned has been something of the state cocktail (if there were such a thing) for well over 50 years.

«If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22 - year - old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: «Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,»» Huffington writes.

A survey of 23,000 people in Germany found that 23 - year - olds were particularly satisfied with their lives, «all things considered.»

«I never wanted to do research on one thing for the rest of my life, which tends to be the academic model,» says the 34 - year - old Lathan.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

The Navy showed me obedience and that's the thing that pushed me to realize the mistakes I had made in my young life at 19 - years - old and that I could do something with myself and become somebody,» he said.

So it's no surprise to see that, according to a Pew Research study earlier this year, 21 percent of the respondents 18 to 29 years old said helping others in need is one of the most important things in their life.

In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of evolution but can you create those kind of important moments in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite important.

Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, like old pals, were complaining about the many crappy things we all have to deal with in life, including finding a cab when we're packed with luggage under the rain and no taxi seems to pass by.

When she is asked what she hopes for in her life, Ms. Xiao, an upwardly mobile member of a two career family making about 60,000 RMB / year (approximately $ 10,000), wants the same things we all want: good health for her family, a steady and challenging job, a better life for her 16 - month old baby than she had.

Remember, two of the hardest things to do in life are to save when you are young and spend when you are old.

Basically, you have to live like a college student and suppress all the things you want to do in life and then, when you're old, you will be rich (MAYBE).

I also like retro looking things in my life, as I'm a violinist and my violin is 200 years old.

But I'm finally starting to realize that maybe — just maybe — those family members and older friends in my life know a thing or two.

The people at that time didn't live to be 30 years old and certainly didn't have a lot of the things we do to today..

There are living things on the earth that are older than that.

I'm a retired Presbyterian minister and I've been saying the same things since fundamentalists rose to ascendancy, I hope I've lived to see the day when the new — actually the old — approach to the good old faith will find adherents again!

A 21 year old atheist, who will be receiving her B.S in May without the help of a God and will do great things in life without something holding her back.

The Old Testament prophets were familiar with trials and tribulation, and how God used these things in life to accomplish his purposes.

I don't care how many times or in how many forms the scenario plays itself out: It is an outrage, a shame and a scandal and a sin, that the old and ill should feel that they are alone with their demons, that those demons render their lives worthless, and that the only sensible, charitable thing to do is to take themselves and the demons as far out of everyone else's way as possible.

It's not easy dealing with countless people that have a age old habit of blaming good people for things the gangsters who live amongst them do.