He had heard, too, that a bear could not climb a small, straight tree, and he could.

Some offered to get a ladder, and ascend, and others to cut down the tree; all of which he obstinately rejected.

She planted fruit trees there and planned to raise rubber and cocoa and cattle.

Hans has never seen the trees after a snowstorm.

One was always surprised not to find a Christmas tree and crackers.

But the real trouble came when, after felling the dead tree, splitting an armful of fuel and carrying it to the Colonel, he returned to the task of cutting down the tough green spruce for their bedding.

And lesser good near greater you shall see, As grows the paper shrub 'neath sandal-tree.

It stands now in the open field, a majestic tree; its great trunk, eight feet in circumference, its long arms covered with foliage, casting a broad shadow over the pasture beneath, in which cattle and sheep seek for coolness and ruminate in the heat of the summer days.

"They are three times our number, and would pick us all off before we could reach the trees.

Why, when a native of one of these island groups sets his heart on a particular loaf of bread up his bread-fruit tree, he doesn't bother to climb after it.

On the following day they shake the trees, and clank their keys, while the church bells are ringing, under the impression that the more noise they make the more fruit will they get.

The snow bends and trims the upper forests every winter, the lightning strikes a single tree here and there, while avalanches mow down thousands at a swoop as a gardener trims out a bed of flowers.

It should be a misdemeanor to chop down a tree, and a felony to clear an acre within its boundaries.

A mere vaqueano was General Rivera of Uruguay,but he knew every tree, every hillock, every dell, in a region extending over more than 70,000 square miles!

But leaving trees, an immense number of proverbs are associated with corn, many of which are very varied.

We love the tree that our forefathers planted, the roof that they built, the fire-side by which they sat, the sods that cover their remains.

Strabo says:"Mauritania generally, excepting a small part desert, is rich and fertile, well watered with rivers and washed with lakes; abounding in all things, and producing trees of great dimensions.

Hate follows love, as 'neath those sandal-trees The withered leaves the eager searcher sees.

I've seen two sich in my day; one of 'em sent me into a tree, and the other put me around a great hemlock a dozen or twenty times, a good deal faster than I like to travel in a general way, and if I hadn't hamstrung him with my huntin' knife, maybe he'd have been chasin' me round that tree yet.

" When they sighted timber that commended itself to the woodman, if he thought well of it, why, he just dropped the sled-rope without a word, pulled the axe out of the lashing, trudged up the hillside, holding the axe against his shirt underneath his parki, till he reached whatever tree his eye had marked for his own.

There was much to do to get the place ready, and Donaldson and Bertrand fell to with their axes to fell trees for the fort.

The mighty flood ran free, tearing up trees by their roots as it ran, detaching masses of rock, dissolving islands into swirling sand and drift, carving new channels, making and unmaking the land.

Traces of tree-worship occur in Africa, and Sir John Lubbock mentions the sacred groves of the Marghia dense part of the forest surrounded with a ditchwhere in the most luxuriant and widest spreading tree their god, Zumbri, is worshipped.

I never saw a Big Tree that had died a natural death; barring accidents they seem to be immortal, being exempt from all the diseases that afflict and kill other trees.

But, in their essential structure, they very closely resemble the earliest Lepidodendroid trees of the coal: their stems and leaves are similar; so are their cones; and no less like are the sporangia and spores; while even in their size, the spores of the Lepidodendron and those of the existing Lycopodium, or club-moss, very closely approach one another.