Herman Hesse wrote that trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
Trees fascinate me and calm me down.
I particularly like solitary and isolated trees, as if they expressed a sense of independence, without being comforted by the close presence of other trees, in the protection of a forest.

One tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber.
One tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.