Er, shouldn’t it be There “are” a huge number?

Here are some sentences with identical structure:

There is a huge flock of birds.
There is a huge bouquet of roses.
There is a huge box of crackers.

There is a huge number of things.

I cried. And then again many times since.

I read a lovely story a year or so ago that was both sad and inspiring.

A couple had a daughter who was about three or four years old. In their yard they had a tree that they became concerned about, so they called a person who determined that the tree had died and needed to be cut down. So the couple hired a company to cut the tree down. When the men started sawing into the tree, the little girl freaked out and tried to prevent the men from cutting the tree down, her mom had to take her away from the house. The men finished the job and left with the sawed up tree. The parents noticed that the girl seemed to have become depressed and they realized that somehow she had become deeply attached to the tree, they had seen her at the tree a lot, but they thought nothing of that. At any rate, the guy who owned the tree removal company recognized what had happened, so he took part of the tree to a woodworking shop and had a gift made for the little girl, he presented the gift to the girl with her parents and explained that it was part of the tree that had stood in their yard. After the gift the girl became happy and made to gift her most cherished possession. It was actually a real and touching story that was ultimately recounted by the girls mom.

I know when I was a boy, we had a mulberry tree in out yard. It produced delicious mulberries during the summer, but year round I did stuff under that tree, my first garden was made near it. Even after I went off to college, when I came home, I would nap and relax under that tree. At some point after I had left home for good, the tree got taken down during work around my parent's house. Even today, I know exactly where that tree stood and retain a mental image of what it looked like.

I'm still sad about cutting down the sick tree that my daughter Kim and I planted when she was about 6. So many years under that tree.

days in it's awesome shade.

When they walk through a forest to find wood for a string instrument, they knock on the trees. The ones that "sing" a certain way are the ones they choose for their instruments.

The things we humans don't know!

making me a viola, and he told me. Then I heard/read about it from other sources!

Now, there’s an another good reason for doing just that.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year. It is an amazing book about this very topic and will make you think differently about trees and forests permanently. Beautifully written story by Richard Powers.

I knew those trees were up to some shit when I was asleep. Next we'll find out about the tree nightclubs and dance parties!

provide sustenance and "wisdom" to their offspring trees. This is fascinating but utterly devastating to fully accept how many things we harm without thinking that much about.

Like when they returned wolves to Yellowstone, the entire ecology was completely transformed. I read the earth could get along just fine and I believe it.

Imagine the changes that have occurred around it during its lifetime and then it ends with a final shudder as it hits the ground.
I spend more than a couple of hundred dollars every other year to keep my ash tree from being killed by the emerald ash borer and it is doing great. It is money that is dear to me, but it's worth it.

but, it doesn't surprise me!!! I do know that when you hug a tree then go and hug another one, you can feel a difference.

sage