In early July, a promisingly thick underbrush of fig leaves started sprouting at the base of the otherwise lifeless-looking tree.
On the opposite page, a white boiler suit hangs pristine and lifeless from a tree.
Soon, the infrastructure of the towns and cities began to fail: power cuts were widespread; thousands of trains were cancelled due to buckled rails; hundreds of fruit bats fell lifeless from the trees; koalas began behaving bizarrely, wandering into gardens to drink from swimming pools; the heat began to make people fatally sick.
WEST, Texas, April 15 (Reuters) - Not far from an enormous crater where a fertilizer plant stood before an explosion there killed 15 people, lifeless and uprooted trees surround boarded-up homes spray-painted with "OK".
There's something a little apocalyptic in these utterly lifeless landscapes — even the tree branches are long past any potential leafiness.
In October , 2001 the tree with lifeless limbs, snapped roots and blackened trunk was discovered and freed from the wreckage at the WTC complex.
The columns are suspended from the ceiling above them, starting at eye level and then rising as the wooden floor slopes downward, evoking lifeless bodies hanging from trees.
The unspoiled image of the province often conflicts with the reality on the ground: visitors "expecting to find pristine forests teeming with wildlife are increasingly disappointed to find lifeless patches of freshly cut tree stumps".
The damage that dams cause to river ecosystems is immense, turning free-flowing waterways into lifeless lakes, killing plants and trees, blocking fish migration and breeding, driving species to extinction, and devastating established patterns of human life.
The result: gentle watercolors of everyday life in slave cabins and cotton fields and somber, sorrowful ones of lynchings -- lifeless black bodies hanging from trees, grieving loved ones below.
