Trees grown in the wild are naturally sparser trees with fewer branches. In the industry these are sometimes referred to as Charlie Brown trees, after the pathetic, droopy specimen that Charlie Brown selected for the Christmas pageant in his eponymous cartoon classic.

these barren rocks, your stern inheritance

Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation […]

“[…] I feel I'm getting an old man now; and my business is very risksome, when the waves are high, and the wind blows hard, and only a cockleshell of a boat between me and eternity; so we're right to lay something by for you, in case ill should come to me.”