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It is claimed that while in the garden he observed an apple falling from a tree that led to him thinking about the theory of gravity, which he described in his 1687 book Principia.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nearly the entire statistical signal was coming from a single branch of the insect family tree.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The little boy adds a bright rainbow, a shining sun and a tall tree to his illustration, while other displaced children paint alongside him at a shelter in Pereira.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The cougar was found lying on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree, where deputies set up a perimeter to keep vehicles and people away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
You’d find it nailed to a tree or posted on the church door or sent to the Rockville newspaper.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The Woodland Trust said native oak trees were known to support up to 2,300 different species, with 326 of these fully dependent on oak for survival.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
They then placed those characteristics onto two of the largest available species level insect family trees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
"First of all, there's nature, of course -- there are the trees, the grass," she said, noting, "the trees already look like autumn."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Designed by Gaudí, the Nativity façade is both naturalistic and overflowing with natural imagery: lilies and palm trees, a tortoise and sea turtle, insects and frogs, sheep and ducks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the trees, near the lake, a loose thread dangled from the hem of my sundress.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025
The cattle, which were tracked from June to August over two years, had access to 625 acres of grasslands and treed areas ranging in elevation from 600 to 2,028 feet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Some farmers positioned portable wind breaks and used treed areas to protect their herds from potentially deadly winds, said Karin Schmid, beef production and extension lead at the Alberta Beef Producers industry group.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
"They won't hurt Hodor," he assured his treed friends.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
By 10 a.m. the dogs didn’t appear any closer to treeing whatever it was they were chasing.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-fed raccoons lay trails to nearby trees, which the hounds are allowed to bark up only briefly to minimize sight treeing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to work then, trailing and treeing the squirrels that Little Arliss was scaring up off the ground.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
I never allowed him to run with packs, but generally used him in treeing coon, which pestered the cornfields during roasting-ear season and in the fall.
From The Outlet by Andy Adams
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