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… approximately 21,000 tons of carbon dioxide in 25 years -- equivalent to planting 377 acres of trees or removing 5,179 cars from the nation’s roads for one year. San Jose Bishop Patrick …

… the world by offsetting its greenhouse-gas emissions. "We know that there still have been no trees planted," even though the company was repeatedly asked to carry through with their … carbon dioxide emissions an individual or company cannot eliminate can be offset by planting trees or buying the carbon mitigation credits of a company that plants trees or takes other action to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When the Vatican …

… was more than adequately endowed with the landscape of childhood: dirt and stone, grass and trees, butterflies and birds, flowers and bees. And while we certainly cherished our own …

… it was a mistake because my property lines were well marked, and there was a big white oak tree that was well marked by the surveyor where the property lines were. I had talked with them a …

… units and 23 market-rate condominiums. Retained on the site was a 150-year-old copper beech tree with a half-acre canopy. The St. John of God development, made up of seven buildings on the …

… got used to the dark, I discovered that I could see, somewhat dimly, the silhouettes of the trees against the sky. Far off, I could hear the lonely cry of an owl and the barking of a … and pine needles. Slowly I began to feel my way along the path. My hands brushed against rough tree bark. My feet cautiously groped among gnarled roots along the path. There was the ruffle and … began to part. I could see patches of stars here and there. Some of them were down among the trees, looking like fugitives from the night sky, brilliant twinklings in among the dark …

… cards she had up her sleeve all winter long. Spring is a quickening of forces as complex as a tree’s buds and as simple as flowing water. By the simple fact of being alive we participate, for …

… many of the beats as we can with her friends or at my table or in the garden where the apple tree blossoms, so sweetly and so briefly. [Melissa Musick Nussbaum is coauthor with Jana Bennett …

… transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: A tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on …

… one who is aware that everything he or she is and has comes from God, that person is like a tree planted near water, thrust its roots toward the stream and has no fear when the heat comes; …

… explosion killed Nguyen on Friday morning, Feb. 12, as he was cutting weeds around his banana trees and preparing for the Tet holiday which began in Vietnam on Saturday. The accident occurred … It is believed that Nguyen hit a cluster munition while clearing weeds from around his banana trees, using the bush-hook. The area where he was working is a large cultivation site for over …

… For some Americans, Islam is a "strange religion." On Pandora, the strange faith is "tree worshipping." And except for a couple characters who cross over between the two worlds, …

… society in the past, there's likely to be a story which is told to prevent people from felling trees in that part of the region. The objective is clear, to protect the headwaters, but the …

… snows have hemmed me in. There in the silence, surrounded for miles by white-topped juniper trees and distant mountains, I've immersed myself in the Gospel of John, in preparation for a …

… die a spiritual death.” About the same time a Cree Indian proverb emerged: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we … billions before being slaughtered? Louisiana remains in mourning for the vanquished cypress trees and other creatures that have deserted us. The very last jaguar died in the US southwest in …

… then added: "Shall we take refuge in the cities in November? Shall the nut fall green from the tree? Let not the year be disappointed of its crop. I knew a crazy man who walked into an empty …

… of brown, russet and tan. All these colors are muted and understated. The sillhouettes of tree branches against a sullen grey clouded sky look like a revelation. Winter contains the …

… de Namur, said simply in her notice: “As with the dying of Mary Luke Tobin last year, a great tree has fallen.” May their strong and courageous spirits live on. …

… In the beauty of the smallest pebble, the petals of a flower, the curling branches of a tree, she could detect the entire cosmos, and this discovery made her burst out with the …

… all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that …