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… the white and pink flowers burst forth. I get to look out my office window and see my redbud tree smiling at me with colorful delight. Forsythia branches, tulips, and crocuses adorn every … my work and be refreshed by warm sunshine on my face, chirping birds, and the beauty of tall trees that surround my backyard sanctuary and give silent company while I eat. These words of W. …

… cranky. Sometimes they even phoned the police who would come and park under the sycamore tree at the end of the block for ten minutes then leave. Once the Gruesome Two caught Martha …

… 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 …