Word: tree
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...painting the great and the good. He simply took them at their own valuation, producing vivid epitomes of social standing as he did so. His portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, for instance, remains the definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured, in its way, as any brushstroke by de Kooning. With women...
...know Harvard has a huge endowment and more property than you can imagine, but you probably didn't know about its tree reserve. That's right, tree reserve. Harvard, in cooperation with the Boston Department of Parks, maintains 265 acres of pure greenery for "research and education." Climbing, anyone? The arboretum, now a National Historical Landmark, is over 115 years old and hosts more than 6,000 different species; to try. Free. Open sunrise to sunset; visitor center open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (517) 524-1718. T-stop: Forest Hills or Arborway...
...this is really starting to become a thorn in my side. I walk into the magazine office, and everywhere I look, someone's dropping the ball, passing the buck or dodging a bullet. And now I'm starting to realize that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Our writers, though still wet behind the ears, are starting to endlessly shoot this shit as well. We don't want to bite the hand that feeds us, but soon enough we'll be digging our own grave. Folks, the buck stops here--if we don't gain control...
...those uninitiated in the ways of the Midwest, a buckeye is a type of tree that produces a hard seed also known as a "buckeye...
...species." It may be argued that to divide humanity from the rest of the natural world is antithetical to the cause of environmentalism, which seeks to include humans in its calculus, as a part and parcel of the complex processes that drive natural systems. But apart from the emotional "tree-huggers" and "rainbow children" whose goal is caricatured as a return to some form of noble savagery, there appears to be no viable intellectual remedy to the schism that divides conscious human life from the rest of nature...