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Canopy walkway. One of the hanging bridges of the 'Sky walk' in Santa Elena, Costa Rica. Canopy walkways ("Baumkronenpfad") at Hainich National Park, Germany. Canopy walkways – also called canopy walks, treetop walks or treetop walkways – provide pedestrian access to a forest canopy. Early walkways consisted of bridges between trees in the ...
Rock a bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in Mother Goose 's Melody (London c. 1765), [2] possibly published by John Newbery, and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785. [3]
Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...
Treetop. Treetop or Treetops may refer to: The top of a tree. Tree Top, an American fruit processing company. Treetops Hotel, Aberdare National Park, Kenya. Treetops (state park), former estate of torch singer and actress Libby Holman, now the Mianus River State Park, Connecticut, USA. Treetops School, a special school in Grays, Essex, England ...
The foreground shows the transition from trees to no trees. These trees are stunted in growth and one-sided because of cold and constant wind. The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not. It is found at high elevations and high latitudes. Beyond the tree line, trees cannot tolerate ...
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/ pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə /), also known as Coniferophyta (/ ˌkɒnɪfəˈrɒfɪtə, - oʊfaɪtə /) or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida.
Crown shyness (also canopy disengagement, [1] canopy shyness, [2] or inter-crown spacing[3]) is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps. [4][5] The phenomenon is most prevalent among trees of the same species, but also occurs between ...
White Christmas (song) " White Christmas " is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ...