Occasionally you will
see a tree stumped suggesting that the idealized virgin territory is begging for civilization.
Others may
see the tree stumps posited in the no - man's land between the past and the future.
Not exact matches
Then you boast about science... yet, none of you are in the field, just what you
see on TV sitting there like
tree stumps, shoving potato chips down your throats.
This is the figure who cuts the
tree down to a
stump in order to build himself a boat in which to escape and
see the world.
Beside him is the
stump of a hackberry
tree, 18 feet in circumference,
sawed off and flat enough now to serve a picnic lunch on.
I loved
seeing those chimps making tools from sticks to get water from a
tree stump.
«As you look up, you
see gray flat shale, impressions on that shale, or entire
trees, or
tree stumps....
As I stand among the
sawed - off
stumps and charred remains of a small grove here, officials have just painted more of the ancient
tree trunks with red X marks to signify eventual destruction.
As he talks to me he stands next to the
sawed off remains of an ancient
tree that tested positive for the bacterium, stroking the new growth sprouting from the top of the supposedly infected, dead
stump (
see the video below).
Unfortunately, the pad seems to annoy the birds — Johnson has
seen them scraping their beaks against
tree stumps and branches to no avail.
«Great prairies stretching out as far as one could
see,» wrote one Norwegian immigrant of the image that lured him and his wife and three sons to America in 1876, «with never a stone to gather up, a
tree to cut down, or a
stump to grub out — the soil so black and rich that as somebody said, you had only «to tickle it with a plow, and it would laugh with a beautiful harvest.»»
«Great prairies stretching out as far as one could
see,» wrote one Norwegian immigrant of the image that lured him and his wife and three sons to America in 1876, «with never a stone to gather up, a
tree to cut down, or a
stump to grub out — the soil so black and rich that as somebody said, you had only «to tickle it with...
I did
see that alvocado growers are «
stumping» 30 % of their
trees because of water rationing in California.
From Jurassic Park: To the south, rising above the palm
trees, Grant
saw a single trunk with no leaves at all, just a big curving
stump.