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… humans. Scripture furnishes numerous moments when nonhuman creatures honor God's goodness. The trees of the field clap their hands, the mountains and the hills break forth in singing ( Isaiah … It points to God as the one who makes springs gush forth, who causes grass to grow, who waters trees and feeds young lions: "These all look to you to give them their food in due season / when …

… by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I’m going in." He then drove to the Tree of Life synagogue Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, the center of the region's Jewish community, and killed … ambitious. He sought to plumb "the soul of a neighborhood." The result is Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood , an extraordinarily intimate and …

… looking at the human; we humans and buttercups are part of a cosmic whole. When we look at a tree or a flower, we are also looking at ourselves, for we are made of the same stuff that makes …

… must always be tended to with reforms, the way dead branches are pruned without harming "the tree of justice," the pope said. Problems that must be kept from growing are "power struggles, …

… continue to rise, putting human lives in danger. Solutions can be as simple as planting trees, reducing electricity usage in the home and on parish property, and driving less and …

… around six or seven times from the coast to the deeper parts of the forest. A reduction in trees on the edge of the forest breaks this cycle down as water is evaporated from leaves in this process," he explained. "Trees are getting less rain and so those that were already getting less water are going to be …

… in the Field Museum's programs interact with plant life native to the region, such as the oak tree — which produces wood for furniture and floors, but also yields acorns that are food for … being like, this is still very much so important to your everyday routine. Just like that oak tree that's giving oxygen, but also that you walk on. Some people still hunt and shoot squirrels that live in oak trees. So, it's talking about how all of this connects, how all these dots come together," …

… glitter-gold nail polish, Alba and Gonzalez where my own abuelas once grew from those family trees. I am haunted by the weight of names I have forgotten: anointings and international phone …

… from the burning bush to lead the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt. The parable of the fig tree encourages us to let God work with us to make us more fruitful. In both stories, God chooses … life of Israel. The drama of the call of Moses may seem far away from the fate of a single fig tree, but the same divine compassion is at work in cultivating its destiny within God’s larger plans. The tree has produced nothing in three years. It is furthermore taking up valuable soil another tree …

… up and down, his eyes bright, his head tilted to the side. We noticed turkey vultures in the tree across the street, two dozen of them sunning their wings in the early morning California … I began to see the incremental shifts of hour and season. The pink blossoms on the nectarine tree budded and then burst open. The crows began dragging sticks out of the neighbor's tree, preparing to build a nest. The angle of the sun slanted upward. The earth warmed. Birds are …

… vision. With that, he launched into a parable about a landowner, a gardener and a barren fig tree. The owner who wanted his land to produce to its full potential told the gardener to destroy the sterile tree. The gardener, who apparently understood the life cycle of figs and the power of dung, asked … and Jesus as the gardener/savior who wants to offer a last-ditch opportunity for the indolent tree. That interpretation, seeing Jesus as God's final offer, fits a theology of a just but …

… replaced the food for her family. Later in life, she turned a wooden column into a living tree with one touch and hung her cloak on a sunbeam. After she founded her monastic community at …