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… spring celebration of fruitfulness in stories I tell about orchardists who place their excess tree prunings on the altar to praise God with the beauty of the forced blooms. For years I … with instructions to put them in water in a warm spot in the house. I pruned two apricot trees a couple of weeks ago and the wood is in full bloom in our dining room window. Apricots bud … of contemplation is losing oneself in the experience of the other who is God. To prune a fruit tree one must contemplate it -- stand in front of it and see it. Clip off all the water sprouts …

… leaned in over the pool. The still waters reflected a small patch of sky above the encircling trees, and in the mirrored reflection I could see also the rocky, palisaded heights and high …

… of people to work in new jobs, right here in the U.S. The Blue-Green Alliance between "tree huggers" and "hard hats" is based on the recognition that those jobs are the key to both a …

… and Teeter creeks thinning the stands of white and black oak and hickory so that healthy trees could flourish. We would stop to eat our lunch on the ridgetop, reclining on the soft beds … and kinglets would forage around us, calling out to each other, in the dogwood and spicebush trees. In the 1990s the monastery signed its forest acreage up in a federal timber stand … one of their over-eager brothers, armed with a chainsaw, who would, instead of thinning the tree groves, thoroughly decimate them. He would take out most of the trees in a stand, cutting …

… then it was destroyed. We saw Palestinian demonstrators chain themselves to fences, walls and trees, and get arrested and dragged away. We cringed at footage of Israeli bulldozers destroying dozens of olive trees, all over a thousand years old. In recent years, they have destroyed nearly 1,000 olive trees owned by local farmers. Once, villagers painted themselves blue, to resemble the indigenous …

… by restless activity or noise -- is more than enough for our evolutionary elders, the rocks, trees, and sunshine. I’m not sure how I came to love silence so much. Perhaps from a lot of …

… is something external, for our use. We are irresponsible with nature, when we cut down the trees, when we spread thousands of millions of litters of pesticides on the soil, when we …

… aid and development agency, has monitored water quality in mining camps and is promoting tree farming as an alternative. It also published an economic and social study of mining in the …

… and which to ignore. One thing is sure - the blogosphere will be lit up like a Christmas tree on this one. …

… there in front of you, to let what you see sink in. When you look at a flower opening or a tree moving with the wind, you just relax and take it all in. Try and see everything like that, …

… peaceful, balanced and restorative. The beauty of a cloud-tinged sky or a stalwart, steady tree can push out the staleness of life cramped within four walls. It’s simply hard to feel bad …

… and needy." The Fairy Stream women's center rests on seven and a half acres. Mango and durian trees dot the landscape. On the edge of the property Huong and the three other Dominicans on …

… Collier. Such richness raises important ethical issues, he said. "Many more people care about trees than care about poverty," he said. "To an extent that's just fine, but there's a danger of …

… people can relate to,” Primack says, “and using species that are familiar to people: apple trees, hummingbirds, ducks. It really brings home the message of global climate change.” …

… But, I also see someone who is incapable of seeing the moral forest for the wonky trees. He needs a budget that not only begins to put the nation on a sound financial footing, he …

… surprised a whippoorwill that was nesting on the ground in the midst of a grove of wild plum trees. Abandoning its lone nestling, the bird flew around us in circles, then landed on a nearby …

… clothes, and thus have the liberty to feel cold.” -- As Nasruddin rested under a tall walnut tree one day, he looked a few yards to his side and noticed a big watermelon growing on a thin … said, “Great God, please permit me to ask you this: Why is it that walnuts grow on big strong trees, while watermelons grow on think weak vines. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?” But at that very moment, a walnut fell from high on up in the tree and hit Nasrudin square on the head. “Ah!“ remarked Nasrudin. “I suppose Nature’s ways might …

… midst of a very different place. When you look out your window you will see different kinds of trees and flowers, birds, ground cover, even very different weather, from what I will see and …

… guilt. Rego de Planas takes her cue from the words of Christ in Matthew 7:17: “Every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.” She notes that Benedict XVI and other senior Vatican officials have …

… what I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and … here God put the human whom God had formed. Out of the ground the Holy One made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sign and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the … and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling God’s command? Mountains and hills, fruit trees and all cedars! Wild animals and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds! Psalm 148 …