The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.

Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.

I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London.

The 4-H girls planted trees and took care of them during the early stages of growth.

Trees and flowers have all been planted in the shopping center, making the atmosphere pleasant

Some animals grow thicker fur, or live in tree holes or underground to stay warm.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 環保主義者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

dead leaves and tree debris make the same sound

Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland.

trees that are dying usually give out a soft moan

The butterflies are so numerous that they often cover the entire trees.

When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.

In an 1801 drawing from his book, General Zoology Amphibia, George Shaw, an English botanist and zoologist, credited Merian for describing a frog in the account of her South American expedition, and named the young tree frog after her in his portrayal of

The tree people in the Lord of the rings—the Ents—can get around by walking.

While tasty, such seeds are delicate — they cannot bud and grow if they dry out as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit.