Trees

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather

He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
- Psalm 1

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes"