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… Canada, the San Juans are a cluster of small to medium-sized islands, mostly covered by trees, and surrounded by miles of rocky beaches. I will never stop being amazed that regular … me. As we were plodding up the first hill, Emmaly pointed up at sun rays splaying through the trees, like golden misty fingers.  I laughed, and said, "When I was little, in my Children's …

… bamboo. Macaques and lutung-lutung , or leaf-monkeys, leaped from branch to branch in the trees overhead. Above us soared a sea eagle. I glimpsed a peacock in the brush. Rangers we … is full of penunggu : guardian nature-spirits that inhabit the tallest and noblest of the trees that surrounded us everywhere along the trail. They sense the intentions of those who enter …

… a sense of God's presence by spending Sunday mornings enjoying the amber and gold leaves of trees along a running trail, instead of spending it inside a church. I know great freedom can …

… showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices.” Christian spirituality …

… main island in the north, packing 108 mile-per-hour winds that toppled power lines and trees and blew off roofs. Its pounding rains caused chest-high flooding in some areas, while …

… Tennessee to join her husband on the prairie. She said she spied what she thought was a tall tree on the horizon and began to weep for joy. Where there was one great tree, there must be others. As the train drew nearer, she saw that it was a heap of buffalo …

… that he has to calmly keep considering the matter, an older publican will come down from the tree and give fourfold to the poor, to whom, before that moment, he had never even given a …

… author seems to be one of those moralists who sees cooperation with evil lurking behind every tree.  Newsflash : If you have been paying attention to the whole controversy over the HHS …

… to stop work on the project. Bulldozers and tractors began uproot hundred-year-old olive trees and clearing dirt paths in the valley Aug. 17. "In the Holy Land, the Christian community …

… settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo. Much of the land consists of olive orchards where some trees are said to date back to the time of Christ. After an earlier April 2 decision that seemed … land is important to people," he said. "Not just for those who make a living farming their trees, but because with so few parks, it is an important open space." Families in Beit Jala had …

… Sharon Abercrombie … Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) saw trees as examples of living prayers. “Silence my soul these trees are prayers. I asked the Tree: Tell me about God -- then it blossomed,” wrote the winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in …

… they flooded our land." "They" were the Army Corps of Engineers. The land was the low-lying, tree-filled valley where the old agency, or reservation center, used to sit, land that so many … hoop is broken and scattered," he wrote. "There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." Le Beau, whose Lakota name is Pretty Rainbow Woman, put the sad trail of history …

… helicopters were flying up and down each street, pulling people to safety from rooftops and trees. Spotting an upended canoe stranded on a nearby rooftop, Hayes climbed out of a … priest to help him minister to people the authorities were still rescuing from rooftops and trees. He joined him with the two religious items he had, his rosary and a St. Benedict crucifix. …

… ain't no relativist! And, why those who think he might be are barking up the wrong doctrinal tree. …

… dozed down. Now when my husband and I go for drives through our Minnesota heartland, we see trees growing up through the middle of silos. Barns cave into piles of rubbish, while some, still … the illuminated past, when small family farms were vibrant, alive and commonplace. A craggy tree still stands on the grassy rolling hill of the pasture, overlooking what used to be our …

… excursion: … Gratitude. … There was much to be grateful for on our trek: the splendor of the trees, mountains, glacial lakes and skies surrounding us; time spent with loved ones in a fresh …

… our gaze is full of hope and mercy because we are certain that the cross of Christ is the tree that gives life." At the time of his election, Pierre was the retired bishop …

… as a gentle and stoic devout Christian. He lived a simple life, working as a landscaper and tree trimmer until he was injured and needed a wheelchair. He often spoke with students about his …

… Merton or Peter experienced. One of those moments when you can see the veins on the leaves of trees a block away, and all the planets and all the people and all the squirrels are just where … everything is exactly the same as it was before, except that now wherever I go, the dead trees come to life." I look out the window at what might be an emerald forest but see only the same old trees. I'm still the Zen seeker for whom mountains again are mountains and rivers are rivers. So …

… and a woman was very thirsty. A woodpecker took pity on her and drilled into a giant lupuna tree. Sap flowed from the tree and became the river, while the lupuna's leaves became fish. Since then, the Marañón River … high-water mark showed as a dark line on the vegetation. "The river is leaving its face on the trees," said Melita Cangoa, who had been attending a course for village leaders at the parish and …