Tag: Trees
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Sympathy
Sympathy A girl is photographing tiny red flowers against a backdrop of green leaves. Beautiful flowers. Beautiful girl. Her attentive gaze perceives colour, life and beauty in a minuscule detail of nature. Her gesture betrays a modest, sensitive spirit. And me? I see the outstretched arm, take in the whole scene at a glance and…
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Where I stand
Where I stand After my comments in the previous posts on the Fall of man and Redemption of man, you may like to know where I stand. Well, I’m standing here under this tree and look up and think it’s beautiful. Through our observations of nature, and our thoughts and studies, we have come to…
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Mama, look!
Mama, look! A tree, a plant, so incredibly huge – how is that possible! The sense of wonder begins the moment you get closer to the base of a giant sequoia and try to imagine its circumference. Then you look up along the trunk and see that it goes on forever: the top must be…
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Living monuments
Living monuments Americans are used to everything being big: skyscrapers; paper cups for cola or weak coffee in ‘large’, ‘larger’ and ‘largest’ sizes; and trees of a size unrivalled anywhere in the world. As we walk amongst the giant sequoias, we suddenly feel very small and insignificant. But it is not just their enormous size…
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Floating Baobab
Floating Baobab The decisive moment for this photograph didn’t come until after it had been taken. It occurred to me that it might be interesting to rotate the photograph 90° anti-clockwise, and that is what you see here. It suddenly becomes intriguing: it looks as though the tree is floating on a perfectly still surface…
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And the guardian deity remains imperturbed
And the guardian deity remains imperturbed Are the tree roots going to destroy the Gopura or are they supporting the structure and preventing it from falling apart? I think they are doing both. The building can easily tolerate the slow advances of the tree, at first but after some time the roots start showing their…
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