Sentences with phrase «spreading branches of a tree»

So stop asking whether or not anyone wants it or needs it, and simply do it because you were made to do it, because it makes you fully alive to do it, because you are working out what God has already worked in, because it matters, because you are called to the ministry of reconciliation, because the seeds might just catch and someday, perhaps, you'll sit by the banks of river under the spreading branches of a tree of righteousness.

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By William Agnew Patton In the midst of this cooly district there is an open space, an acre or two in extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far - spreading banyan - tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their market.

Megafauna like the mastodon, wooly rhinoceros, or the saber - toothed tiger lived on every continent until the Pleistocene epoch, about 125,000 years back, when the human branch of the evolutionary tree spread from Africa to other continents.

Lift your arms up and spread them like the branches of a tree.

Maybe not, but there's a surprising poignancy to Saulnier's meditation on the way violence creeps into the hearts of the bereaved, spreading across the branches of a family tree like a poison.

Constructed from weathered sections of dead trees that have been brought down from the mountains of Southern China and bolted together in the form of a whole, healthy tree with spreading branches, Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably ltree with spreading branches, Tree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably lTree is a totem that may be seen as a comment on the strength of modern China built from many ancient ethnic groups, or a determined attempt to create something new and vital from what is irrevocably lost.

For this Invites exhibition Lyddon has produced a new series of works, linked by the motif of trees in various guises — spreading branches, twisting roots, and dead stumps — which merge and morph into human form.

McKenzie would be the clear star of this exhibition were it not for Gillian Carnegie's coolly seductive paintings in glossy monochrome: a sleek black cat on the landing of a stairwell; another, as self - contained as a sphinx, glimpsed beyond the black bars of a bannister (pictured right: Prince, 2011 - 12); a spiral iron stair; a vase of flowers; a tree with a swirl of abstractly spreading branches, reminiscent of Mondrian; an abstract pattern of Harlequin diamonds that provide the only burst of colour.

Hodgkin's mural is of a banyan tree spreading its branches across the walls.