Imagine for a moment an obituary for a scraggly tree, its roots exposed before the wind finally broke it free. Lines from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem? No, it describes April 10, 1911, newspaper ...
In Rikuzentakata, which was wiped way by the March 11 tsunami, a lone pine tree stands tall. Many Japanese people see hope in its resilience. The... On the beach facing the Pacific in a city called ...
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - Very little was left standing in the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata after a huge tsunami tore through nearly a year ago. Even the centuries-old pine forest by the sea ...
The visiting royals will plant on Friday at the Australian War Memorial a sapling grown from the historic Lone Pine that was planted there by the Duke of Gloucester in 1934. The Duke and Duchess of ...