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...Poem Card with Design of Moon and Pine Tree" COURTESY PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM...
They stand, thanks to Eve's powers of poetic evocation. This is not a matter of flowery language but rather of powerful metaphors, the fusing of multiple meanings into a few words. Take the title. The Family Orchard refers to a grove of citrus trees in the stories and also alludes to the term "the family tree." An orchard consists of artificially cultivated trees. "People are supposed to graft," a citrus grower tells his sons. "Part of our partnership in creation." This book is an example of the partnership it celebrates...
...hugely popular Blackthorne Inn on Point Reyes Peninsula in Inverness, Calif., were featured in, say, Architectural Digest, its style might be characterized as Tree-House Chic. Built four stories up a hillside teeming with 180-ft. Douglas firs, the Blackthorne is a combination of rustic and posh (read: a hot tub set amid the clouds) that has led fans to dub it a "treetop fantasy...
...offered to hand out chain saws to anyone wanting one, in order to spur land clearing. (In recent years, Mendes has adopted a slightly softer approach toward the forest.) Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, has grown rapidly in wealth and size in the past 10 years, but without massive tree cutting in surrounding areas. Local soils are notoriously bad, for one thing, which discourages agriculture, and besides, most immigrants can make more money in town...
...Nelson believes pre-Columbian Indians created the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, a 75,000-sq-km area of veld stretching across the southeast corner of the country, by repeated burning of the forest. As evidence, he points out that unlike neighboring natural grasslands, the Gran Sabana lacks fire-tolerant tree species. In other words, forests burned down hundreds of years ago have been permanently eliminated...