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  2. The Man Who Planted Trees - Wikipedia

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    He makes holes in the ground with his straight iron staff and drops into them acorns that he collected from miles away. He is also growing beech and birch saplings for planting. The narrator leaves the shepherd, returns home, and later fights in the First World War. In 1920, shell-shocked and depressed after the war, the man returns. He is ...

  3. Jadav Payeng - Wikipedia

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    Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 31 October 1959) is an environmental activist [1] and forestry worker from Majuli, [2] popularly known as the Forest Man of India. [3] [4] Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve.

  4. The Man Who Planted Trees (film) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] In his acceptance speech, Back shared his Oscar with "all the women and men who plant trees and hope and work so hard to protect forests, wildlife, the health and the beauty of this world". The film also competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival . [ 4 ]

  5. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    The tree will make a sound, even if nobody heard it, simply because it could have been heard. The answer to this question depends on the definition of sound. We can define sound as our perception of air vibrations. Therefore, sound does not exist if we do not hear it. When a tree falls, the motion disturbs the air and sends off air waves.

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    As a tree bends, so shall it grow; As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined; As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it; As you sow so shall you reap; Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer; Ask my companion if I be a thief; Ask no questions and hear no lies; Attack is the best form of defense; At the end of my rope

  7. Parable of the barren fig tree - Wikipedia

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    The fig tree was a common symbol for Israel and may also have that meaning here, [5] and the tree in the parable may refer to a Christian who has heard the gospel of Christ by faith unto salvation. In either case, the parable reflects Jesus offering a chance for repentance and forgiveness of sin, showing his grace toward his believers. [ 6 ] "

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  9. Parable of the Mustard Seed - Wikipedia

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    Gregory the Great: " Christ Himself is the grain of mustard seed, who, planted in the garden of the sepulchre, grew up a great tree; He was a grain of seed when He died, and a tree when He rose again; a grain of seed in the humiliation of the flesh, a tree in the power of His majesty." [15]