Sentences with phrase «see trees as»

Cats often see trees as fabulous climbing posts.

He sees trees as trees, rivers as rivers, and mountains as mountains.

Most young children will see Tree as a loving, parent - like figure.

We should see the tree as basically the result of a «revolution» — the germination of the seed that it came from.

I don't see the tree as a symbol of death - I see it as a symbol of growth and strength.

When Allan Wexler looks into the forest he sees its trees as nature's I - beams, their leafy boughs as protective rooftop canopies.

Not exact matches

In many ways, building a successful business that can be passed down the branches of your family tree is seen as the American Dream.

As an entrepreneur, it's easy to fall into the cliché of not seeing the forest through the trees.

What's more, despite the fact that «many executives see it as a badge of honor,» Jolly says, hurry sickness can also damage your career even before it wrecks your health, because being in an incessant hurry has a way of making people miss the forest for the trees.

Nearby a calf was stuck in a tree as a man in a kayak paddled out to see if it was alive.

As the U.S. economy improves, top dollar stores Dollar Tree and Dollar General have been seeing something of a secular recovery, Cramer said.

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.

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences can walk alongside the rangers protecting elephants in Africa, see what it's like to be a tree, ride in an automated taxi transporting passengers, or follow a Holocaust survivor's steps as he visits the concentration camp he was held in for the last time.

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

And just this week, we saw some of that progress frustratingly recede as a tree fell on a crucial power line, knocking out power to 840,000 people.

For us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow God.

Suppose for example I go on vacation, and when I return I see several trees in my neighborhood blown down as well as branches strewn around everywhere.

(Joshua 24:25 - 29) One who has seen, all the way from Korea to Arabia, the persistent continuance of such cult practices as these references indicate can not mistake the meaning of the tamarisk of Beer - sheba, (Genesis 21:33) the burning bush of sinai, (Exodus 3:2 - 5; Deuteronomy 33:16) the palm - tree of Deborah, (Judges 4:5) or the tamarisk - tree in Jabesh.

(Except for cursing and killing a poor fig tree — but I see that as metaphor, not literal.)

Joel 2:30,31 «And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.»

What's real is this furrow of black soil, that crabapple tree: These we can protect insofar as we see them, touch them, and therefore know them.

He climbed the tree in the hope that he would see this acclaimed healer and that the man of Nazareth, respected as he was by the folk that Zacchaeus preyed upon, would also see him and affirm the stature he had earned by climbing.

If one sets out well before dawn, and arrives at the top in time to see the sunrise, one will find oneself walking as much in the clouds as through the trees, and there is a brief period (twenty minutes or so) when the sunlight first reaches the ridge, at a sharply lateral angle, and one is all at once passing through shifting veils of translucent gold.

'' • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity)» A bear, a shark, and a birch tree are never seen as one creature though.

If He had, they would have had to go without branches or booths, since other, older religions used tree branches in their idolatrous rituals, as the prophet Ezekiel noted (see Ezekiel 8:17).

He was a man of small stature and had climbed the tree so that he could see Jesus as he passed by.

The crowds had gathered to see the recently lit up Christmas tree and nativity scene as the pontiff gave his week angelus.

Probably the best explanation is that originally this was in the form of a parable, describing Israel as a withered tree that no longer bears fruit (see Luke 13:6 - 9).

God had seen fit to judge this blasphemer named Jesus by hanging Him on a tree, for as the Scriptures say, «Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.»

God can not be seen as a tree is, but can be inferred or felt or run into.

Yet the writer depicts him as so «small of stature» that he has to climb up a tree to see Jesus pass by!

He first saw people as trees.

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

Here and there one glimpses a quiet vale with a single tree overhanging a well, the typical «peaceful valley»; or he may see the flocks waiting under the midday sun, as they did in biblical times, while the shepherds draw water for them.

Men and women still living nearby came forward to recall what they had seen there as children in 1937, in the early summer mornings, as they hid in the foliage of the trees.

One thing makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see parent fools their children by lying to them that an old dude with the name of Santa will come and get you gifts or anything you wish for... and they put things under the tree and make these poor children know that these are from Santa... and its being done generation after generation... parents now were victimized when they were child by their parents and they are repeating the same with their children and it is now in a loop and no one seems to be wanting to get out of the loop which is plain lie and very clear... but these poor children has nothing to do as they under the custody of these parents...

This strangeness is understood when one comes to see that the spirit that conquered a huge land is a spirit continuous with that which today plays with technics as a previous generation made a game out of felling trees, shucking corn, and plowing fields.

As a result, many of us not only find ourselves believing we are «seeing» a tree or believing that we had eggs yesterday or believing we have a headache but also that God exists or God is good.

Paying careful attention, we see how one desert is not the same as another, how different trees flourish under specific conditions, how some cultures speak with animals as spirit - friends.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

As I sit at the shot - at tree The rough wound opens and grows strange and deep Within the wood, till suddenly I see A galaxy aswirl with flame, I do not sleep And yet I see a trillion stars speed light In ever - singing dance within the hole Surrounded by the tree.

We sometimes describe our blindness as an inability to see the forest for the trees, but that's a benign analysis.

We see evolution as singularity = > matter and energy = > universe = > earth = > organics = > «tree of life».

Xstians stole the x-mas tree gig from the pagans, and as soon as they saw rock n roll wasn't going away they incorporated that into their brainwashing scheme as well.

And as their car lies mangled and wrapped around a tree, see the otherworldly aftermath as each student faces the eternal consequences of an afterlife with or without Jesus.

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?

It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).

Rather, they see liberal Protestantism and Mariology as separate branches of the same heretical tree.

As we have just seen, the historian of religions proceeds no differently when, for example, he studies the symbolism of the World Tree.

The command not to eat of the Tree, which was first taken for granted as reasonable (even if not to her in any obvious way), must now be seen as stemming from a jealous God.