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… several towhee birds, while two or three indigo buntings sang brightly in the nearby pine trees. Last night my wife Linda made a cobbler and eight pints of jelly out of the harvest of …

… the rise of a “reductionist and analytical biology,” which too often misses the forest for the trees. This tacit worldview, Sloan says, has displaced a “richer” view of human life that once …

… the original birthday for us all – the planets, stars, galaxies, the bacteria, fungi, oceans, trees, rocks, critters, and human beings – she found herself naturally turning to verse once …

… tucked into an area just west of Holy Family Church and features more than 25 kinds of plants, trees and flowers arranged around a statue of the Holy Family donated by the Sisters of the Holy …

… of the bee and the wasp, the surge of green across the Earth. Then the first rush is over, the trees are vast canopies of cholorophyll, the meadows tall with grass, the fields thick-bladed …

… before. If the Church is a garden, new sprouts are proliferating. There have always been tall trees and shrubs (cathedral and parish communities) in the church. But now, there are new …

… Rose Pacatte … A couple of weeks ago "The Tree of Life" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival though some audience … 's Rich Heffern got a jump-start on Catholics reviewing Terrence Malick's latest film "The Tree of Life" that opened this past Friday in limited release. Heffern is obviously taken with … it totally. The way to life, therefore, is a path of surrender and acceptance. I think that 'Tree of Life' is communicating this same difficult but vital lesson." Then John P. McCarthy, …

… a group of young squirrels. Half grown siblings, they scurried up the trunk of the highest Ash tree and when they reached the top, came to an abrupt halt as they hit a dead end. The next tree was a considerable distance away, which seemed daunting to me. With barely a pause, the … not been tethered for months, drifting amidst the seed pod casings shed from the overhanging trees following recent thunder storms. I liken the seeds to the spiritual potential we all have, …

… was the last time they held their One of the gazillion-member Brood XIX infamous two-month, tree-level mating frenzy. After their long nap, these periodical cicadas woke up and emerged from … Second, after their two-month breeding cycle, the dying cicadas will help support the very trees they feed off of: "When they die, their carcasses essentially decay and provide a nice nutrient injection back into the soil for the trees," Gene Kritsky, editor-in-chief of the journal American Entomologist, told National Public …

… and about late at night. Her descriptions of a praying mantis eating her mate during sex, or a tree filled with natural lights, or a water bug eating a frog by dissolving its insides and …