I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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