A Forrest of Trees

I love trees. I'm not afraid of them one bit. To climb them all day would be a delight. They are so majestic; straight ones, bushy ones, even dead ones seem strong and stoic. The tree might make a great mentor for me. What a symbol of the inner me I wish I could be.

Trees, like humans, have layers in concentric rings. Every passage of life, to every season, there is a ring. Together, all of these rings make up the complete tree.

Quotes: Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. Brigham Young

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)

There's nothing that keeps its youth,So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894),

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)