Sentence examples for pines from inspiring English sources

Muir, spending his first summer working as a shepherd among the pines of the Sierra Nevada in California, reflected in his journal that "Every tree calls for special admiration.

Among the most effective bonsai subjects are junipers, azaleas, pines and maples, with their changing leaf colour.Size is less important than people think: the smallest and most delicate examples are not necessarily the most prized.

EACH summer families drive from South Dakota's plains into the Black Hills, thick with ponderosa pines.

He knew that Hoyo Negro, one of the island's volcanoes, had erupted violently in 1949, and believed that the clouds of ash and explosive ejections of rock from the eruption had destroyed all of the pines nearby.

Using traditional breeding techniques, they are introducing the resistance genes into pines on test sites in America.The main advantage of using genetic markers is that it speeds up old-fashioned breeding methods, because you no longer have to wait for the tree to grow up to see if it has the desired traits.

The trees are so dense that, unable to compete with one another, they succumb to disease and bark beetles.When a fire hits one of these tinderboxes, it burns to the ground with temperatures so hot that the soil is sterilised, killing the seed of the ponderosa pines and native grasses.

He pines for an American marshal whom he met on a case, but knows they can never be together.

Complaints abound that newly transplanted catalpa and ginkgo trees are blocking views of the sea, that black pines on pavements are leaving no room for pedestrians, and that trees are being planted in absurd places such as underneath flyovers.The aim of the scheme is to help Qingdao qualify as a "National Forest City" in 2014.

Like Ceres, ArborGen is working on four species: eucalyptus, poplar, and the loblolly and radiata pines.

The National Centre for Conservation Science and Policy is working on legislation that would allow logging in eastern Oregon's forests, which are largely filled with dry Ponderosa pines.

In any event, over the past decade a new blight has been identified in Britain's woods almost every year, with larch, pines, sweet chestnuts and oaks all affected.