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… son, the language of a sigh. He writes of the first flight of a mourning dove, an intriguing tree he calls the Church Tree where he goes for meditation, the treasure of a hummingbird on a nest, the scattering of the …

… helping recent immigrants and refugees, feeding, clothing and housing the homeless, planting trees, growing gardens, and cleaning up streets. "We are asking for your help -- not tweets of …

… few months, walking him was a challenge at night, but we managed to keep him from running into trees. He would occasionally need help standing up, and knew precisely the look that told me …

… Americans, with their libertarian tic, prefer to talk about duties to each other, as well as trees and animals. What is a "right to health care," after all, but a way of identifying a …

… holds potted plants and a few chickens, and ducking under the long pods hanging from tamarind trees. With floodwaters lapping practically at the threshold of her house, Batista, 54, snags …

… Adelle M. Banks … Religion News Service … The rabbi of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, site of an October mass shooting, tries to avoid using the word "hate" … their own stories of experiencing religious violence in the past year. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life,  a synagogue in Pittsburgh where a gunman opened fire last fall, spoke of parents … set foot in any synagogue since the attack on Oct. 27. "The perpetrator of the massacre in the Tree of Life not only stole 11 beautiful lives that he had no God-given right to do, but he stole …

… People displaced by the flooding were moved to new neighborhoods, practically devoid of trees, carved out of land at the edge of town. The original plan was to offer houses of three … Fearnside of Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus. That is because the trees and other vegetation submerged in the reservoir rot over time, producing greenhouse gases … their pen under the last of the raindrops, scratching among the manioc plants and small fruit trees that the couple has planted. Neto casts his net carefully, to avoid snagging it on …

… in cities where there is low coverage of electricity is a challenge, because the basin's trees being are exploited to feed the increasing demand. People living in the forest areas are cutting down trees to grow food in areas they consider fertile. Catholic officials in Congo are tackling … responsible attitudes on environmental protection. "Through awareness, the action of planting trees in schools and other institutions, one can see a concern to preserve the forest to combat …

… and foraging in the forest beyond the cluster of houses. Brazil nuts, which fall from giant trees early in the year, are prized for eating and for sale, but soy farmers fell and burn the trees to clear land, even though it is illegal, said Dileudo Guimaraes, a community leader. The …

… Tancredo and three other women were at work in a small kitchen in the shadow of a large tree, preparing lunch for eight teachers and 136 children, ranging from preschool age to ninth …

… from Atalaia do Norte's main plaza, narrow wooden boats with palm-thatch roofs bob beside the tree-lined riverbank. When villagers come to town  –  because a relative is sick, or to collect …

… no longer seemed attractive. He dreaded returning to parish ministry. Then, while at Broom Tree Retreat Center near Yankton, South Dakota, he met Fr. Jim Mason of the Sioux Falls, South …

… of war. Consider their intentions, public and private, their motives, overt and covert. Good trees, root and branch, produce good fruit. Bad trees produce bad fruit.  So look at history, past performance, character and proven values. …

… the U.S. Senate. The problem with spying racism or patriarchy or homophobia behind every tree is that when you confront the genuine article, you have cried wolf once too often to be …

… of the Amazon forests, survives because monkeys in the canopy above strip the outer cover of tree nuts for their food, then drop them to the peccary, the only animals with jaws strong enough …

… matter to the action underground of the thorn and the thistle, the wild sassafras or the oak tree? What do the wild mushrooms care about the farmer's borders or their false idea that they …

… collapse from within of the multi-tiered stadium that once housed hierarchy. When the dead tree of hierarchy, weakened by its knowledge of good and evil, toppled, the well feathered nests … were also pitched from its petrified branches. The inability of this ancient but now rotted tree to take root in the Space/Information Age means the loss of power and privilege for those …

… the future and not the container of the ashes," said Francis. "Tradition is like roots [of a tree], which give us nutrition to grow," he explained. "You will not become like the roots. You …

… picture. As the story opens, Abraham is seated “by the terebinth of Mamre.” A terebinth is a tree like an oak. Mamre seems to refer to a region that may have been named for a chieftain …

… on the second day of battle, the woods on Little Round Top. As soon as you come through the trees, you instantly grasp the strategic significance of the spot: Had the Confederate troops …