Sentence examples for mammoth tree from inspiring English sources
Celebrated conservationists such as John Muir would all later visit the stump of the original "mammoth tree" to reflect on both its fate and influence.
The lawn has apparently not been mowed for months, chest-high weeds have sprung up, and the path to the front door is littered with fallen horse chestnuts from the mammoth tree in front.
A section of the bark from the "Mammoth Tree", as newspapers soon described it, had already been removed and was sent to San Francisco to be put on display.
Footnote: I first fell under the spell of the story of the Mammoth Tree five years ago - I feel it has many lessons for us today - and have been researching the tale, on and off, ever since, with the expert guidance of Gary D Lowe.
The report went on: "This will of course kill the tree, which is much to be deprecated". On 27 June, 1853 – the same day the tree finally fell - a report in San Francisco's Placer Times and Transcript also noted an article, again in the Sonora Herald, expressing regret that Captain Hanford was preparing for a "portion of the mammoth tree" to be sent to New York.
Pines are the principal trees, along with cypresses (Cupressus and Chamaecyparis), cedars (Cedrus), and redwoods and mammoth trees (Sequoia and Sequoiadendron).
If I were not afraid of heights I would have followed suit, but I just can't bear the thought of being up in those mammoth trees.
Yet Mueenuddin's talent lets us perceive not just its machinations but also its beauty — the mango orchards, a charpoy laid out in the shade of a mammoth banyan tree, the smoke of a hookah on a spring afternoon, "eucalyptus trees planted by some briefly energetic government".
Two iron gates and a mammoth acacia tree marked its entrance; this popular restaurant, it seems, is only for those who know its whereabouts.
There was the arching sand wedge to the 14th hole, a shot from the rough that crested a mammoth maple tree before plopping onto a thin sliver of green 3 feet from the hole.
On party night there was an air of magical expectancy as the smell of pine needles off the mammoth Christmas tree mixed with the reek of eggnog laced with Monsignor Hamilton's rum.
