Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group; his dramatic play is very vivid"; at six, "outstanding for clear thinking and intelligent planning"; at eight, "a ready fund of first-hand knowledge." His mother taught him to read at five during a Connecticut winter away from school. He remembers his first book: The Little Fir Tree. By the time he was eight, his parents would find him with his light on at 11 p.m., reading anything that was handy. "Children should be allowed to read things they don't understand completely," says Mark. "We had thousands of books around the house. God knows what he read...
...hangs over a precipice by his teeth, which are clenched in the branch of a tree. His hands are full, and his feet cannot reach the face of the precipice. A friend leans over and asks him. 'What is Zen?' What answer should the man make...
...bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in a different direction. The debate may continue for several days...
When a swarm of bees separates from an established colony, it does not go at once to a new home. Most swarms settle on a bush or tree, and form themselves into buzzing balls with the queen in the center. After hours or days of debating, the swarm makes up its collective mind and flies to a suitable cranny...
...Tree I come to you console me for being only...