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

"Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now."
- George Pope Morris, Woodman, Spare That Tree

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
. . .
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
- JOYCE KILMER, Trees