Sentences with phrase «thorn acacia tree»

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The vicious thorns of the acacia tree, insects flying around the eyes — these are no match for the tongue of the giraffe, one of the longest in the animal kingdom.

Using a catapult powered by a bungee cord, the experts launched a small airplane over the deep and dark landscape, thick with acacia trees sporting 5 - centimeter (2 - inch) thorns.

Working in a stunning variety of materials — including wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art: carving large trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand into a large - scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.