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… The stringed instruments, the violin, the bass, the viola, and the venerable trees they have been borrowed from... …

… they will not be going home for a long time. "In 2005, we tried to get the refugees to plant trees in the camps, but they still had hope they'd soon return home. So they refused and were ready to fight the staff. They asked why they should plant trees if they weren't going to stay," Fall said. "But today they're asking to plant trees, and they're building houses with mud and bricks, because it's safer and more comfortable …

… New Mexico -- a land long ago roamed by fierce conquistadors and in the 1800s full of hangin' trees and frontier justice and today home to the nuclear industry-- last conducted an execution …

… scar. And thusly another band of branch grows and is connected to the last one. So goes the tree of living wood, growing upward, outward, full and whole. Over and over. The tree expands. Scar by scar. Amen. It is soon Father's Day and if one could tell the caretaking …

… said the archbishop. Another story involved a mother and her 3-month-old baby. After a tree fell, blocking the door and making it impossible for the pair to exit their home, the mother …

… site's suggestions and then some. They sponsored family night at a local restaurant, a holiday tree sale, a Mother's Day flower sale, a basket raffle, a bake sale and a pancake breakfast. …

… village about 75 miles southwest of Yangon. Leieintan was accessible only by boat, given the trees, downed electricity pylons and other cyclone debris blocking the roads. The humanitarian … just a year old, died in the nighttime flood. "My wife can't swim, so we had to hang on to a tree. I picked her up to put her up the tree, and at the same time the water swept away my … a tour of the disaster area. More than 15 villages simply disappeared. About 70 percent of the trees in Yangon were uprooted. All churches, priests' houses and convents have been damaged, …

… to show off a few bits of spit-and-polish around the house. For example, a new bank of trees has been installed on the grounds to shield its garden from the busy street outside, in …

… blocks of shattered glass a match for anything jagged in the psyche, and finds a grove of trees a restful place that calls peace forward in the psyche. It is true. Some of us are called …

… matter how small, is considered most valuable. Why? Because an orcharder knows that fruiting trees that have the smallest seeds, and that the trees that shed the smallest seeds, bring the most new life into the world. Till we meet again: …

… we make to this view [evolution]? It is the affair of the natural sciences to explain how the tree of life in particular continues to grow, and how new branches shoot out from it. This is not …

… And yet we persist. But not everywhere and not everyone. Here in India -- the land of banyan trees whose roots speak of depth and endurance, of lotus flowers that speak of survival and …

… for my resistance. I'm always amazed that Jesus did not spend his life sitting under a tree, dispensing his wisdom. He stood up, spoke out, and marched to Jerusalem, where he …

… with the human family. "Nor can we forget that we draw nourishment from the good olive tree," the Jewish people symbolized by an olive tree, "onto which the wild olive branches of the gentiles have been grafted." That's an image … covenant of the Jewish people with God, as Paul says, is irrevocable, and that's the olive tree to which we've been grafted. Now, as I say, we kind of reverse the message that Matthew was …

… who proclaimed a message of judgment. John said we have to take the ax to the root of the tree and destroy it. And Jesus wasn't doing that. So John was beginning to wonder, was Jesus … he were chopping wood. Maybe he is showing Jesus just how to 'lay the ax to the root of the tree of evil.' "By contrast, the face of Jesus is calm and hesitant. His eyes are full of compassion. He asks John, 'Isn't love enough?' John answers angrily, 'No! The tree is rotten. God called me and gave me the ax, which I placed at the root of the tree. I did …

… he were chopping wood. Maybe he is showing Jesus just how to lay the ax to the root of the tree of evil" - remember those words that John said the Messiah is going to do, "lay the ax to the root of the tree of evil" - "By contrast, the face of Jesus is calm and hesitant. His eyes are full of compassion. He asks John, 'Isn't love enough?' "John answers angrily, 'No! The tree is rotten. God called me and gave me the ax, which I placed at the roots of the tree. I did …

… was sustained, Kolvenbach said, by a proverb also recently cited by Pope Benedict XVI: “If a tree falls, it makes a lot of noise, but if a thousand flowers bloom it happens in the greatest …

… approving plans, for example, to put solar cells atop the Paul VI Audience Hall and to replant trees in a stretch of Hungarian forest in order to offset the Vatican’s annual carbon output. In …

… the Roman authorities, who was despised. Jesus says to Zacchaeus, "Look! Come down from that tree. I have to come to your house today," and the people all got upset, angry and groveled and …

… HAVE MERCY, DEAD MAN, WHOSE GRANDIOSE GENTLE HOPE DIED ON THE WING, WHOSE BODY STOOD LIKE A TREE BETWEEN STRIKE AND FALL, STOOD LIKE A CRIPPLE ON HIS WOODEN CRUTCH. WE CRY: HALT! WE CRY: …