Trees in sentence

1375 examples of Trees in a sentence

Now one of the reasons why there are so few trees is this: people need to cook, and they harvest wood and they make charcoal in order to do it.

In Haiti alone, about 30 million trees are cut down every year.

That's remarkable, but up until now, there weren't ways to do it without cutting down trees.

Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!

There are sites that now take the Wikipedia approach to family trees, collaboration and crowdsourcing, and what you do is, you load your family tree on, and then these sites search to see if the A.J. Jacobs in your tree is the same as the A.J. Jacobs in another tree, and if it is, then you can combine, and then you combine and combine and combine until you get these massive, mega-family trees with thousands of people on them, or even millions.

But we'll also talk about those other beautiful things that my African ancestors brought with them: a love of landscape, a respect for the spirits that live in trees and rocks and water, the ethnobotanical aspects, the plants that we use for medicinal purposes.

It's easy to not see the forest through the trees.

Also, two women with passionate hearts: Wangari Maathai, the Nobel prizewinner from Kenya who has planted 30 million trees.

She talks with the women and explains that the land is barren because they have cut and sold the trees.

She gets the women to plant new trees and water them, drop by drop.

"How many trees are there in the Amazon and can you tell me the locations of the trees that have been felled between this week and last week?"

When they met trees, they had to reshape their connections and reform as a mass cell through not speaking.

We replaced these cars with trees, using which now we can make multi-layered forests.

The closer you were to green space, to parks and trees, the lower your chance of heart disease, and that stayed true for rich and for poor.

Our plan, in a nutshell, is to draw natural sunlight underground using a simple system that harvests sunlight above the street, directs it below the city sidewalks, and would allow plants and trees to grow with the light that's directed underneath.

But we have something that plays the same role, with much more elegance though: the trees, our good old friends that, like geysers, can transfer an enormous amount of water from the ground into the atmosphere.

There are 600 billion trees in the Amazon forest, 600 billion geysers.

If you have the opposite situation, a forest, the evaporation, as we showed, is much greater, because of the trees, and this relation is reversed.

In Humbo, in southwest Ethiopia, a wonderful project to plant trees on degraded land and work with local communities on sustainable forest management has led to big increases in living standards.

So far, most city governments have been effective at using tech to turn citizens into human sensors who serve authorities with data on the city: potholes, fallen trees or broken lamps.

One typical thing that happens is people will come from the highlands, where there are not many coconut trees, down to visit their relatives on the coast, where there are lots.

I am addicted to adventure, and as a young boy, I would rather look outside the window at the birds in the trees and the sky than looking at that two-dimensional chalky blackboard where time stands still and even sometimes dies.

I am going to talk about gigantic trees that we put in nine strategic pathways in the jungle covered with Christmas lights.

These trees helped us demobilize 331 guerrillas, roughly five percent of the guerrilla force at the time.

These trees were lit up at night, and they had a sign beside them that said, "If Christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home.

So how do we know these trees worked?

So let me take you back four years before the trees.

Four years before the trees, we were approached by the government to help them come up with a communications strategy to get as many guerrillas as we could out of the jungle.

This picture that I have here, you see this is the planning of the Christmas trees, and that man you see there with the three stars, he's Captain Juan Manuel Valdez.

Captain Valdez was the first high-ranking official to give us the helicopters and the support we needed to put these Christmas trees up, and he said in that meeting something that I will never forget.

Related words