Sentence examples for tough trees from inspiring English sources

"When a tree that size falls over," she said, "it makes you appreciate how tough trees are in fact — that they can get to that size".

Fit to thrive in dirty, confined environments for two hundred years at a stretch, London planes are, one arborist told me recently, "tough, tough trees.

"These are tough trees, but we're entering a whole new era," he said.

There is not a single novice run, but there are many tough tree-lined runs, plus two funnels through which many skiers converge.

By Elizabeth Kolbert Researchers are hoping to "assist" evolution in order to produce hardier corals and tougher trees.

The discovery that trees with resistance to ash dieback may produce fewer chemicals that ward off insects such as the emerald ash borer emphasises that the project to breed tougher trees will have to proceed carefully, said Buggs, who also works at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. "It emphasises how difficult it might be in the end to breed a tree that is resistant to both," he said.

The project's aim is not to breed up a tougher tree but to create one through genetic engineering.

Cattle and horses, being heavy and large-footed, can trample and eat tough young trees that encroach on finer plants.

"It's quite a tough landscape tree," she said.

Read up on the history (Robert E. Pike's "Tall Trees, Tough Men" is the classic account), and it can seem that the log drive left just a few moments before you got there -- and this explains the quiet sense of anticlimax this land lies under, which was the same kind of peacefulness that came every summer when the drive and its excitement moved on.

It is a tough, fast-growing tree that tolerates city conditions; it is available in several varieties (cut-leaved, white-fruited, and variegated) that find use as hardy ornamentals and in naturalized landscapes.