Sentence examples for venerable tree from inspiring English sources

The ideal of the art of bonsai is to create, through dwarfing & shaping, a miniature of a venerable tree on a horizon with the perfection of line of a work of art; the creation of a fine bonsai can be a lifework; many living bonsai are over a century old; bonsai are as precious as jewels.

The film, in telling the life story of Henry Yisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last, quivering twig on the Manchu Dynasty's venerable tree, is distinguished by its gorgeous re-creation of the lacquered, ceremonious interior of the Forbidden City, where Pu Yi was virtually imprisoned for 12 years after the tottering dynasty crumbled into nothingness in 1912.

The lehendakari — a man in his mid-forties with very white skin, intense brown eyes, and a balding pate, like that of a Capuchin monk — was standing next to the venerable Tree, bathed in light from the lamps of a TV crew.

In this painting, the artist has set the motherless and uprooted animal in a realistic, stormy wilderness, hemmed between a shining lake and the sloping trunk of a venerable tree, to create a drama that emphasises the vulnerability in the awkward creature's eyes.

Residents are so wedded to their surroundings that a recent proposal to cut down a venerable tree that obstructs drivers' views at the intersection of Norfield Farms Lane and Norfield Road ignited a debate so heated that it warranted several weeks of coverage in The Weston Forum, a weekly newspaper, said Sheila Shupack, a broker with William Raveis in Westport and a resident of Weston.

"Her penchant (was) for the notable feature that gives a garden its special character: the worn stone, the shadowed fountain, the venerable tree," writes James Yoch.

"Probably not because they were big venerable trees," says Mr. Benepe.

"In fact, they are among our most interesting, beautiful and venerable trees," he said.

Stop at the Hard Wok Cafe just off the Venerable Trees Terrace, whose monastery is home to both chanting monks and mischievous monkeys.

The patterns of London's growth can be seen spreading into subtopia and the green belt like rings marking the age of venerable trees.

The exact age of the hemlock can not be fixed with certainty, as neither history nor the dating of venerable trees appears to be perfectly exact.