\ˈtrē\
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk,
ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually
developing branches at some distance from the ground.
-thefreedictionary
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
- Ansel Adams
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."
- William Blake, 1799, The Letters
"The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."
- Ansel Adams
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,
the books you have read, the music you have heard,
the people you have loved."
- Ansel Adams