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The huge spruce on the farm is chosen to be the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, but Andy, Ellen, and their parents are not sure they want to sell it.
Author : Leonard Weisgard
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN :
The huge spruce on the farm is chosen to be the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, but Andy, Ellen, and their parents are not sure they want to sell it.
Author : Robb N. Johnston
Publisher : Robert Johnson
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 9781935356158
The determined woodcutter stands before The Most Beautiful Tree on four occasions. In the spring, summer, and autumn, the Tree is able to use her wits and generosity to cleverly avoid his axe. In the dead cold of winter, she finds herself barren and defenseless when he comes calling one last time.
Author : James Tooley
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 193970913X
Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of Gansu, China, and of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves. Now in paperback with a new postscript, The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in some of the world's poorest communities. It is a book about what is going right, and powerfully demonstrates how the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can be found in every corner of the globe.
Author : Diane Cook
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1683351770
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world. From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas. This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!
Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780764927584
Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
Author : Noel Streatfeild
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781906462086
"First published in 1945 by Collins"--Copyright page.
Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393635538
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Author : Amye Rosenberg
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307020017
Residents of a great fir tree in a thick forest make their home noticeable in hopes that Santa will come for his first visit to them.
Author : Jared Farmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0393078027
Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152008970
From Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky comes a fascinating journey through the rainforest canopy that's perfect for budding environmentalists.