Sentences with phrase «trees as a symbol»

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

Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition.

In Brazil, the participants gathered around a baobab tree, but the installation in an outdoor area of NYU Abu Dhabi art gallery features a ghaf tree as a symbol of the tree of knowledge.

So potent was that original Liberty Tree as symbol of independence, it was targeted by the opposition in the opening battles of the Revolutionary War.

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not too many realize that people were impaled, hung on a post or tree with their hands vertical not out as shown on a cross which was a pagan symbol from chaldea and egypt.

On the contrary, we can now envision all trees as analogical actualities, as transcendent symbols that participate in the reality that they signify, as having likenesses to us despite their differences from us, and thus as linking natural things with both human and divine things — and perhaps also with things demonic.

Birds in the branches of a tree, for example, are used in rabbinic literature as a symbol of Gentiles who in the last days will seek shelter in the shade of Israel.

Thus, cosmic symbols of folkloric themes such as Water, Tree, Vine, the plough and the axe, the ship, chariot etc which have been already assimilated by Judaism are passed on to the Church, which gave them sacramental meaning.

Later on, the Lord chooses pine trees as His chosen symbol for redemption and restoration.

Later on, Christian families set up paradise trees in their homes as symbols of redemption through the birth of Christ.

«Becoming» such natural symbols as flowers, a tree, a rock, a river, the ocean, the sun, or even the galaxy, can be particularly valuable for this purpose.»

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

That same symbol is used in the Garden of Eden as the promise of provision, in Jeremiah 17 to illustrate a man whose trust is in the Lord, and in Revelation 22, which describes another tree of life that bears fruit in the new earth.

A hundred years later, as I celebrated Christmas in Manhattan, the tree decked with blue glass baubles and stretching to the ceiling of our little apartment was the only potent religious symbol Christmas afforded.

As symbol of this kinship of nature and the supernatural innate they have deified objects like stones and trees.

As to the capacity of symbols to reveal a profound structure of the World, we may recall what has been said above pertaining to the principal meanings of the Cosmic Tree.

Each one of these new valorizations is possible because from the beginning the symbol of the Cosmic Tree reveals itself as a «cipher» of the world grasped as a living reality, sacred and inexhaustible.

It was almost as old as his brick house, which was built around 1810, and like other aged things the tree always appeared to be a symbol of pluck and order to him.

Others bury the placenta under a new tree, as a symbol for the placenta acting like the «tree of life» for the baby and believing the organ will bring richness to the soil to help the tree grow.

The display, which includes more than 70,000 lights, bears, soldiers and Frosty the Snowman, as well as seasonal symbols such as a sleigh, wreath and dreidel, was unveiled Friday evening at the village's annual tree - lighting ceremony and runs through Jan. 6.

«Chestnut trees are a vital part of healthy woodlands and long stood as a symbol of healthy communities as well, here in Erie County and across the eastern U.S.. Then, communities nationwide were stricken and watched helplessly as blight took these magnificent trees by the millions across decades, leaving lone sentinels dotting the landscape where thousands of their counterparts had flourished,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Three years later, the Japanese sent more than 2,000 young trees to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of the growing friendship between the two nations.

British settlers first brought the tree to North America in the 1600s, where it became so popular as to develop into a cultural symbol for the United States.

Incapacitated when he falls out of a tree whilst masturbating to the sight of Lila, Puff is taken in by Nathan and his faux - French lab assistant Gabrielle (Miranda Otto, «Eowyn» in the next two Lord of the Rings instalments) so that they might teach him to appreciate opera, unravel fork etiquette, and hold him up as a symbol of what we left in Eden.

The Baobab, also known as the Tree of Life, is a symbol of strength, resilience and comfort.

By using the pine tree, which was adopted as the symbol of the New York Armory Show in 1913, Pinsky's photographs magnify the conflations of iconography and allow for more deliberate consideration of the icon and its various histories.

Each of those three will show different examples of Mr. Ai's recent sculpture, which include symbols of uprootedness and displacement, such as cast - iron tree trunks.

Iconic images and forms such as light switches, tree - shaped air fresheners, and pyramids recur in many works, creating an archeology of objects and symbols that hover between the existential and the everyday.

Outside of his studio stood a mulberry tree, a very appropriate symbol for a printmaker, as the bark of the mulberry tree has been used in the making of paper for over 2,000 years.

Trees have been historically used as symbols of refuge, or evocation in some religions.

In «Hyphenated Lives» (2015), a collection of artworks that resemble zoological and botanical drawings, Kallat has created hybrid birds, animals, trees and flowers by artistically fusing species appropriated as national symbols in conflicted countries — symbolically unifying the divided nations which are their habitat, through fictive wildlife.

Standing tall as symbols for their states, official state trees are points of pride from coast to coast.

Judean palm trees would come to serve as one of the kingdom's chief symbols of good fortune; King David named his daughter, Tamar, after the plant's name in Hebrew.

The fact that this tree has resisted all assaults and threats can only be understood as a collective desire to preserve it as a symbol or parcel of memory.

But, if your client is effectively «deputized» or becomes a «de facto» agent of the state who is called up to be a member of a posse for the police, for example, by using an agreed symbol such as shining a light with a symbol on it on some clouds, at that point, with respect to that matter, the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule and Miranda probably do apply to evidence that your client obtains, and exclusion of that kind of evidence could make prosecution much more difficult, unless the prosecution can successfully make an argument that the other evidence that the illegally obtained evidence leads them to is not «fruit of the poisonous tree» because it would have inevitably been discovered in due course using only the legally obtained evidence.

While the Halifax Explosion is well known what is not as well known is that every Christmas since 1971 Nova Scotia sends Boston a large Christmas tree, which is erected in the Boston Common, as a as symbol of gratitude for the assistance Boston provided Halifax in the aftermath of the explosion in 1917... [more]

While the Halifax Explosion is well known what is not as well known is that every Christmas since 1971 Nova Scotia sends Boston a large Christmas tree, which is erected in the Boston Common, as a as symbol of gratitude for the assistance Boston provided Halifax in the aftermath of the explosion in 1917.

However, the cross on Mount Royal is a historical monument and tourist attraction and is not really seen as a religious symbol... and the Christmas tree has loss all religious connotations and should be left alone.

The fall tree is recommended as a sandtray / sandplay symbol or for more general play therapy.

This summer tree is recommended as sandtray / sandplay symbol or for more general play therapy.

Fire Tree — a symbol of all Noongar Country, as balga trees are found all through Noongar Country.