Sentence examples for of destroying trees from inspiring English sources

They completely wiped out the city of Kabul and everything else they came across, laying waste villages, farms, orchards – the troops made a particular point of destroying trees by debarking them, knowing how essential their trees were to the Afghans.

One medieval sage wrote, "The purpose of this commandment (of not destroying trees and other things) is to teach people to love and respect good things.

How on earth could the council be so determined to destroy trees of such deep importance?

For more than a decade, other beetle varieties have been destroying trees across millions of acres of western North America.

"We made a mistake," he said, "and we learned". The story of the seven destroyed trees, all on a state right-of-way, began last spring when Mr. Vohra, an engineer for the United States Department of Energy, notified the Maryland Highway Administration about a diseased pine tree on state property in front of his house.

The trees are increasingly being sold to illegal/unofficial chainsaw teams even more frequently than to legal/official timber companies, which are accused of destroying cocoa trees when they remove the trees with their forest tractors.

"Buildings on the edge of the beach were destroyed, trees and electricity poles fell to the ground.

Between the destroyed trees, lines of newly planted oil palm sprouted.

Save the Children's Vanuatu director, Tom Skirrow, described its aftermath as a scene of complete devastation: "Houses are destroyed, trees are down, roads are blocked and people are wandering the streets looking for help".

More flexible burning rules will help farmers dispose of the more than 1 million destroyed trees in orchards around the state.

They thus resort to the destructive surface mining, which destroys trees and vegetation of the high forest.