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… a fine curtain raiser on the visit, but her last line, while true, missed the forest for the trees. She wrote, “And though he may bless our president and beam that knowing smile, his prayer …

… and took pictures of their daily lives – meditating, gardening, driving tractors, swinging on tree swings, feeding their cat. Reese turned her work into a book, Dedicated to God: An Oral …

… after all he had seen and experienced during the war, Motes once spoke of Jesus "moving from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off with …

… boasts a pristine, old-growth forest containing almost 100 native oak, tulip, and black tupelo trees estimated to be at least 150 years old, as well as the oldest grotto in the city, which was …

… "We are moving into the future," Berg said. Paul Harris, who worked with Berg in the Christmas tree business prior to his 1999 ordination to the priesthood, traveled from his home in Austin, …

… of life and love and the leavening is infinitely smaller than the mass of fruits, flowers and trees that are born out of it. I believe I have already said that our goal is not to proselytize …

… enough money to take motorbike taxis. Patients attended a Mass and picked “sacred buds” from a tree hung with leaves containing Bible passages offering educational and moral advice. This is a …

… Your daughter's involvement summons the old saw about the apple not falling far from the tree. What does she do? …

… Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” One of the major actors in that fictional dream is the willow tree. In the first act, the tree is barren. In the second, the willow tree has sprouted four or five leaves. Most people who really see the play are astonished at the …

… her family, which works in the copra industry, because Haiyan knocked down most of the coconut trees they were depending on. "I suggested they try some temporary livelihood activity, like …

… of St. Sebastian. Their view of the Vatican was obscured by the rows of towering cypress trees that lined both sides of the road. "I haven't been here in years," said Cardinal Bergano. …

… “Go for a walk in the woods and see the wonder that is outside of the stores. Plant a tree, pick up trash on the beach, make a commitment to no longer use plastic bottles, screw in a … toxic waste dumps; partnering with a parish from the developing world by planting carbon sink trees to absorb carbon dioxide growing organic gardens on church grounds banning plastic cups …

… 'Breaking twigs off of the tree of life' … and currently, 350 species are going extinct every day. "We are breaking twigs off of the tree of life," she says. "We are cutting off the promise that they hold within themselves that …

… Jan. 17 dawned dull and gray. Strewn at curbside were the last of Christmas trees destined to be mulched; the cheerful lights they used to wear were packed away and the …

… that Donabel Castillon could recognize of the land she farms with her family. The coconut trees were tall matchsticks with few, if any, branches left. Her small vegetable and rice fields … that CRS pays each farmer about $80 to prepare the same fields they lease where their coconut trees grow to produce other vegetables for up to 10 years. That's long enough for new trees to mature and begin producing the high-quality crop demanded by processors of …

… journey, with only two llamas for company, Illyn “witnessed hillsides shorn of their trees and logging towns fighting for permission to remove the last stands of old-growth forest -- …

… of Pope Paul VI's trip there and his seminal meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras. Among the trees that have grown from the seeds sown that day is Notre Dame's Tantur Ecumenical Institute, …

… speech was filled with "old chestnuts," the GOP responses were a forest of chestnut trees. President Obama may still inspire the Democratic base. He did nothing to really persuade …

… the kitchen and say good morning to the white Buddha who sits in our backyard under a cherry tree, its bare branches decorated with red and silver Christmas ornaments. Vickie sips a … O come, all ye faithful ... Silent night ..." Vickie sings and glows like an angel on top of a tree. Lyndsay De Matteo, a program coordinator, conducts the Bell Girls. Each woman holds a bell … aides wind their way around the rows of men and women like tinsel around the aging limbs of a tree, giving each person cake, juice and a stocking with candy canes. I know that none of this is …

… he died last September, his Christian family placed his body in a casket carved from a fallen tree by his son and interred it in the woods at Green Acres Cemetery near Columbia, Mo. It just …