The phrase "age-old tree" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tree that is very old. For example: "The age-old tree stood tall and proud in the center of the forest."
It is as if he had carved his initials in one of the age-old trees.
Thankfully, American Forests, a nonprofit conservation organization, and tree lovers everywhere have joined forces to settle the age-old question: if a tree grows to impossible heights, will anyone appreciate it?
Gloria, one of the guides, an affable woman in her 50's who used to live at Tassajara, told us that a student once asked Suzuki Roshi the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The answer to the the age-old question "If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is that, yes, of course it does.
Being a sound designer I'm very interested in the idea of 3D Audio and want to start proceedings with an age-old riddle; "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" To answer this takes you beyond the realm of physics and into the world of perceived reality.
Unlike the age-old thought experiment involving trees in forests, the answer to this riddle is easy.
Wow, Warren Buffett has cracked the age-old mystery of where big trees come from.
The table's legs, which resemble back-to-back brackets (as well as water buffalo horns or African sculpture), are bound together with the roots of the fir tree in an age-old version of the bent-wood process.
Farming a crop of twenty-five or thirty plants of killer weed is an updated (and highly profitable) version of the age-old California dream of an orange tree in every back yard.
Here is a twist on an age-old question: if an illegal logger hacks at a tree in a rainforest, does anybody else hear it?
