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Capuchins travel by leaping from tree to tree. Given its size, the marmoset often struggled to keep up.
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Eighty percent of the nitrogen in the forest's trees comes from the salmon. In other words, these ocean dwellers are crucial for the forest's long-term survival.
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Preparing drinks like percolated coffee is a challenge, because there's no gravity to pull the water down through the granules.
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A ubiquitous woodland mix of lawn grasses and trees has found its way throughout Europe and the United states,
And why do parks in New zealand often feature the same species of trees that grow on the other side of the world in the UK?
Even desert cities feature the same sizable street trees and well-watered and well-fertilized lawns that you might see in more temperate climes.
Windy city parkin Finland, Heiki Setã ¤lã ¤of the University of Helsinki has monitored the urban environment to measure pollutant concentrations near tree canopies and in waterways.
 In New york city, Thomas Whitlow of Cornell University sends students through tree-lined streets with portable, backpack-mounted air quality monitors.
many street tree plantings are ineffective at removing air pollutants, and instead may trap pollutants near the ground.
 My students and I equipped street trees with sensors in and around the trunk in Los angeles to monitor growth
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Archaeological discoveries suggest perfumes were being created from extracts of myrtle, cypress, and other plants in Mesopotamian palaces millenia ago.
For example, both clementine and vanilla are reported as pleasing, but while clementine is thought of as stimulating,
vanilla apparently makes people feel more relaxed. Smell is important to various other animals too.
Voigt describes its smell as sweetish, with a touch of bitter almond. If you would like to comment on this article
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Arizona, the Palo verde Nuclear power Plant is the world's only atomic power station not located adjacent to water.
 The public park includes on-the-ground research plots to see where trees are needed.
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Studies comparing coffee, tea, beer and milk found they all stimulated the secretion of acid.
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as well as adding a few of their own into the mix oe a colleague's pet rat called Coco, a pygmy hedgehog,
Coco was quite at home facing up to the watering can, relishing the shower before contorting herself around 15 times a second to dry herself.
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six coffees, two snacks and one meal had been paid for by the cafe's previous visitors,
 says technology consultant Dave Birch, who runs the Tomorrow's Transactions blog at Consult Hyperion."
 Birch explains that these people knew that M-Pesa's parent company, Vodafone, is a multinational company,
I might be able buy a coffee while complying with this self-imposed challenge. Totnes residents have a reputation for being fiercely loyal to local businesses,
When I explain my plan to Birch, the Tomorrow's Transactions blogger, he's more sanguine about the idea of converting life savings into Bitcoins to escape Europe's struggling economy."
Birch's message is clear. Not only is cashing in my savings as Bitcoins a dangerous plan,
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If distant tea and coffee plantations were the first modern clouds, A&p stores and mail-order catalogues were the first browsers and apps.
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plazas and buildings made from hybrid composite materials that include engineered animal tissues, living trees, and lightweight manufactured screens, all manicured like a fantastic topiary.
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This could have been provided by wood ash, although some later recipes in the middle East used the mineral natron (sodium carbonate).
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In Singapore, for example, the Marina Bay Sands hotel features a skypark on the 56th floor, with trees,
such as a mountaintop view, a lake and palm trees, have been picked cherry and combined to provide an easy, entirely artificial landscape for the city.
self-styled"guerilla gardeners  are planting flowers and trees in plots among the tarmac and traffic of London's highways,
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Think of how trees share common technologies (leaves, trunk, roots) adapted to different kinds of environments
which in turn, enriches the food for the trees. In the near future, we will begin to tap into the technological potential of this metabolic diversity
While trees are complex organic structures that require substantial infrastructures and resources to nurture them, biotechnology has revealed that multicellular organisms can perform similar processes oe but even more powerfully.
they are much easier to keep and much more vigorous than trees. Indeed, architects are already proposing that microorganisms may power our cities.
-which enables us to grow organisms that do not exist in nature by manipulating their DNA oe to create trees that produce a natural light-producing protein usually found in jellyfish.
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But apple trees live for 200 years: the old ones are still there to be rediscovered by new enthusiasts."
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sustainability advisor and author Tony Juniper and environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev reveal the richness of life supported by the Amazon
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or forests crammed with trees, some overlapping, occluded, moving, or viewed at odd angles or in poor light.
that is, what are the patterns that allow us to see the wood and the trees.
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Some also criticized the organizers for not live-streaming the event at Sanaa's coffee houses, one of the few places in the city with reliable high-speed internet.
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Forest Giant David Quammen National geographic 30 november 2012on a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National park, around 7, 000 feet above sea level in the Sierra nevada, lies a very big tree.
It's a giant sequoia, called the President, and it's the second largest tree On earth.
Quammen follows a team of scientists, who have learned surprising new facts about giant sequoias by climbing
and measuring them inch by inch. The photograph of the scientists hanging from the President is simply breathtaking,
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Fruit trees are distributed randomly throughout the forest, with some areas containing more fruit than others. So Tonkean macaques must decide which direction they will move in search of food,
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but also their descendants on the evolutionary tree oe whole lines of phyla will prematurely cease.
wheat and eucalyptus are found around the world while many others have become rare or vanished.
or in some cases plant nonnative trees and grasses, or introduce animals to restore the functions that the pre-human ecosystem once provided oe such as reducing soil erosion,
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Planets, pandemics and powerthe vanishing groves Ross Andersen Aeon 16 october 2012 A superb essay on the world's oldest trees, the bristlecone pines of California,
I can take you up to a point that's higher than any living tree, and higher than any of the dead trees we've ever found,
says one expert, and I can show you where, two years ago, I found a little foot-high bristlecone pine growing.
Where will the next pandemic come from? And how can we stop it? David Quammen Popsci 15 october 2012 The best guess:
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and yields-on behalf of organizations ranging from the World Food Program to Great lakes Coffee (a local coffee purchaser) that lack an affordable means of collecting such granular, real-time information.
it cannot rest on its laurels. Â Even the most successful models require constant innovation. Â Once a mobile-enabled human network with a sustainable business model is established,
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But although we can certainly improve tree-planting, we also need land to grow food for an increasing global population,
Lackner has designed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using"leaves  that are 1,
000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis. We don't need to expose the leaves to sunlight for photosynthesis like a real tree does,
Lackner calculates that his tree can remove one tonne of carbon dioxide a day. Ten million of these trees could remove 3. 6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year oe equivalent to about 10%of our global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
Our total emissions could be removed with 100 million trees, he says, whereas we would need 1,
000 times that in real trees to have the same effect. If the trees were mass produced they would each initially cost around $20,
000 (then falling as production takes over), just below the price of the average family car in the United states,
he says, pointing out that 70 million cars are produced each year. And each would fit on a truck to be positioned at sites around the world.
Lackner says his trees would do the job for around $200 per tonne of removed carbon dioxide,
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whether there's really gingko in gingko supplements. The answer is usually no he says.""No one can tell the difference between one set of green powder and the other.
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Farmers reap multiple benefits from planting nitrogen-fixing trees and hedgerows around their fields for example, while also sowing the most effective crops for the area,
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and forwards over the tree-tops firing pulses of laser light at the ground below.
such as in Caracol, some of the pulses will hit the top of tree canopy, some the middle, others the forest floor.
Both the Chases and Fisher teams admit that cruising over the tree-tops in a plane does not totally supplant the need to get up close and personal with a site.
which can now only be glimpsed in satellite imagery on tree-cleared landscapes. He also believes it will also allow us to understand ancient African migrations and cultures,
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when we would expect that scientists had rustled every tree and bush in search of new forms of life, there is no reason why the same should not apply to new species of large primate,
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and start discussing some bird in the tree, I would still be looking for the bird
Trees, cars and people looked more alive and more vivid than ever. And, remarkably, he's seen the world in 3d ever since that day."
every tree standing out from all the others, Â he says. Something had happened. Some part of his brain had awakened.
the trees that are farthest away will blink in and out of view behind the ones that are closest).
you might see trees right near the road speeding by, jagged rocks a bit further in the distance moving more slowly,
"I enjoy looking out at the world and seeing some things in front of others and looking at the forest and the trees,
"A tree becomes a big three-dimensional sculpture rather than a pattern. That's a treat.
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trees and plants can take in our carbon dioxide, but not fast enough. Ultimately, the answer lies in a synthetic version of this natural cycling, so-called closed-loop manufacture,
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Fish that lay their eggs in the shallows among submerged tree roots, for example, may find a few hours later that those sites are high and dry with the eggs desiccated.
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Whilst in the deep, lush forests of the Congo Basin having enough well-trained people to monitor illegal tree felling
trees from which they harvest a particularly delicious and tradable species of caterpillar. People are equipped with touchscreen devices with icons for various options like"valuable tree  that they can select
and tag with GPS coordinates.""What is good is that these maps will do the talking for communities,
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which allows tree saplings to mature. Conservationists also argue that tigers are good for the local economy
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where his new friends order him up a meal of clam chowder, roast beef, beets, asparagus, pie and coffee.
Records show that after the pills they all sat down to coffee and plates of sandwiches
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and from trees to houses. The biggest problem is that it takes such a long time for soil to form oe some 10-12
Great green wallfarmers are fighting back by planting trees and shrubs that help keep the soils moist,
as a result of tree-planting programmes, and there is now an ambitious plan for a'Great Green Wall of Africa'to cross the continent from Djibouti to Senegal in a tree barrier against the encroaching deserts.
In Indonesia, I found farmers planting vetiver oe an Indian grass oe to protect their soils from erosion,
in trying to preserve the few trees and shrubs around cropland, farmers are burning dung for cooking.
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blazing a trail across continents to clear trees for grazing and agriculture, enabling societies to develop from hunter-gatherers to rooted civilizations that produced complex technologies.
We have changed the covering of the planet by chopping down trees (currently we fell 130
There are now more trees on farmland than in forests, for example, and if we were to weigh all of Earth's land vertebrates,
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a giant red maple leaf is lowered from the top floor window of a museum in downtown Eastport at 11 p m. local time to ring in the Canadian New Year.
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Pepperidge Farm, had baked its 500, 000th loaf. The brand is owned now by Campbell soup. Though these stories may suggest that accidental inventions are quite common, Lynn Dornblaser,
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#Worlds First Solar-Powered Christmas tree Lots Pop up In San diego Solar Powered Tree Lot Buying a Christmas tree isnt exactly the greenest thing to do for the holidays,
but if youre bent on carrying out the tradition then you might want to check out a new trend that is greening up tree lots beyond the piles of conifers, that is.
Stellar Solar has provided its Mobile Solar Station to power two San diego Purdy Farms Christmas tree lots,
Its easy to forget that along with the carbon footprint of the trees themselves tree lots are also a drain.
Using these solar stations will help minimize the impact of at least a few lots, and hopefully the idea will catch on in sunnier states Stellar Solar is proud of its contribution
and states that oeits the first known use of solar to power a Christmas tree lot and certainly the first San diego solar power lot.
Powering the Purdy Christmas tree lots is a great way to do that in a unique location and expose a whole new audience to the practical use of solar power.
It makes sense given that they used solar power to grow these trees in the first place. Solar power is indeed practical for a lot of situations that are looked often over.
From Christmas tree lots to powering festivals themselves, mobile solar power stations like these can be a big help for keeping events off grid, Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati c
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A tree in one corner adds some scale and provides shade and colour. There is an easy-to-grow Potato vine along the fences and back wall.
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Wifi Makes Trees Sick City trees are becoming sick from wireless radiation from local area networks and mobile phones.
Radiation from Wi-fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in The netherlands.
Radiation from Wi-fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in The netherlands.
All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldnt be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.
Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In The netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms,
compared with only 10 percent five years ago. Trees in densely forested areas are affected hardly.
Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANS, ultrafine particles emitted by cars
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months.
Trees placed closest to the Wi-fi radio demonstrated a oelead-like shine on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves.
and determine long-term effects of wireless radiation on trees. Via PC WORLD Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati a
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since plants and animals branched apart on the evolutionary tree but down through the ages they have developed strikingly similar mechanisms for detecting microbial invasions
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and aspen trees to recover, along with other positive impacts on beaver dams and wildlife. Conceptually similar activities are taking place between sharks and dugongs, the researchers found.
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#Treegreetings The ecard That Plants a Tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase Treegreetings...
technology and the Earth working together to plant trees! A shade, fruit, flowering or evergreen tree gets planted in the US or Central america with every amazing, beautiful, musical, nature ecard sent.
No paper used in the entire process and its easy as 1, 2, Tree! Let Natures simple,
heart-tickling and inspiring wisdom help you live Your True Nature each and every day. Your True Nature has over 150 eco-friendly gifts in their web store all printed on recycled paper
and over 60,000 new trees planted to replace all paper used in our company. After having received a Magnolia tree for his 11th birthday,
Ilan Shamir gained a lifelong appreciation for the value and joy of receiving a living growing gift. oemy tree and I oegrew up together!
It has been such a valuable and important part of my life that I wanted to give others the experience of having a tree planted for their special occasions.
Here is an idea that combines the power of technology with the beauty and gentleness of nature.
and celebrating trees for over 25 years. It is more than a business, it is their passion and mission.
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Students on this scenic campus of stately oaks rarely meet classmates in these courses. Online education is known best for serving older,
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Tree-ring researchers at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory showed that big eruptions tend to dry up much of Central asia,
The growth rings of some tree species can be correlated with rainfall, and the observatorys Tree Ring Lab used rings from some 300 sites across Asia to measure the effects of 54 eruptions going back about 800 years.
The data came from Lamonts new 1, 000-year tree-ring atlas of Asian weather,
which has produced already evidence of long, devastating droughts; the researchers also have done a prior study of volcanic cooling in the tropics. oewe might think of the study of the solid earth and the atmosphere as two different things,
The tree rings showed that huge swaths of southern China, Mongolia and surrounding areas consistently dried up in the year or two following big events,
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The tradeoff between agricultural production and maintaining natures carbon reservoirs native trees, plants and their carbon-rich detritus in the soil is becoming more pronounced as more and more of the worlds natural ecosystems succumb to the plow.
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locusts, grasshoppers, cockroaches, ants and maggots, just to name a few. As for me, please pass the barf bag.
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or coffee or tea made with up to 1 gram of sugar per ounce (or 2 teaspoons per 8 ounce cup).
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with the giants of the African savannah steering clear of trees infested with them just in case they crawl up their sensitive trunks.
protecting trees and having a major impact on the properties of the ecosystems in which they live.
and do protect trees from animals that are about a billion times more massive, Dr Palmer said.
when Dr Palmer and colleague Dr Jacob Goheen noticed elephants avoiding a species of acacia tree in the Kenyan plains.
The trees are found across the African savanna and are devoured normally and trampledby hungry elephants.
However, they stayed away from acacia drepanolobium trees if they were home to guardian ants.
The elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli, Dr Palmer said. It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks
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Basically the ashes must be sprinkled onto the raw piece of vinyl (known as a oebiscuit or oepuck) before it is pressed by the plates.
the ashes are pressed into the record. The site has a very irreverent style and operates under the strapline oelive on from beyond the groove.
suggests why he has a practical attitude to peoples ashes. He explains how he went out on a boat with his family members to sprinkle the ashes of his grandfather into the sea His uncle oereleased them on the wrong side of the boat
and so the ashes went all over us. Apparently the same thing happened to his father, too!
And Vinyly also offers personalised RIV (Rest In Vinyl) artwork the simple version just carries your name and your life span,
using your ashes mixed into the paint. The basic package costs £2, 000 and comprises of the standard artwork
along with up to 30 ash-flecked discs with whatever sounds you choose, lasting a maximum of 24 minutes.
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#Finance Site Lists Most Expensive Invasive Species A Canadian goose Asian carp arent the only invasive species causing trouble in the United states
Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.
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causing trees as far away as Stockton to sink. Trees were uprooted also west of Fort Tejon.
The shaking lasted 1 to 3 minutes. The study was conducted by scientists at UC Irvine and Arizona State university.
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#Heat wave in U s. Causes Trees to Change Colors Leaves change colors during heat wave. Man, its hot out there.
So hot that trees cant decide what season it is. Okay, needs some work. But its true.
video) CNN has this video about how the heat has confused the hell out of trees in the South:
see, the trees redirect resources to only its most vital parts, conserving water and energy by redirecting them to the trunk.
The trees leaves change colors, wither, and fall off months ahead of schedule spurred by the harsh temperatures.
Which means well soon have a lot more to worry about than trees changing colors. Via Treehugger Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati h
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Breeding commonly eaten insects such as locusts, crickets and meal worms, emits 10 times less methane than livestock.
This involves transferring the skills of the 15,000 household locust farmers in Thailand across the border. oethere were some proponents of a bigger dairy industry in Laos to improve a calcium deficiency
Locusts and crickets are calcium-rich and 90%of people in Laos have eaten insects at some point,
and tourists South africa Locusts lend interest to the staple dish of cornmeal porridge Australia Witchetty grubs are a traditional part of the Aboriginal diet Via Guardian Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati
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In Palm Coast, civil engineer James Tiffany took a job in 2006 and quickly bought a home to capitalize on the boom that transformed this once sleepy retirement community into one of the nations fastest-growing cities.
Until recently, the economy in Palm Coast was built largely on breakneck housing growth, which helped double the population to about 100,000 over the past decade and drew people such as the 32-year-old Tiffany to town.
The huge county courthouse in Palm Coast is largely vacant. Next door, the new county office building was built also for growth that suddenly ended,
When magazine marketing and fulfillment company Palm Coast Data threatened to leave two years ago,
Palm Coast officials vacated their city hall and leased it to the company to keep its more than 1, 000 jobs in town.
and marketing center in Palm Coast. Officials are proud of those moves, but they know the new jobs are unlikely to be a good match for the construction workers,
real estate agents and mortgage brokers who make up the largest share of Palm Coasts unemployed. oeyou can bring in all the electronics jobs you want,
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and prune the fruit trees he has in his backyard. But he also likes to watch sports on TV.
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#Trees a Poem by Joyce Kilmer (Photos) TREES by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earths sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer is known mostly for his poem, oetrees, published in the 1914 collection, Trees and Other Poems,
after it first appeared in Poetry magazine in August 1913. Kilmer wrote oetrees on February 2, 1913,
at his home in Mahwah, New jersey. The poem was dedicated to Mrs. Henry Mills Alden (Ada Foster Murray Alden), his wifes mother and a poet in her own right.
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coffee and ice cream. oewe had a milkshake night here a few weeks ago, says Lauren Meisels of the Greenest Green. oethe place was packed.
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the tree embryo would soon cause the trees water to break, and a full two week deliver process complete with slivers, slivers, and more slivers...
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Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, the 5, 500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preservedhanks to a surfeit of sheep dunguring a recent dig in an Armenian cave.
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The courtyard contains a swimming pool surrounded by papaya and palm trees. The oldest student is 18
The playing field, with its red-ash surface is outside of the city. Most of the players are still in high school or work as apprentices,
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