Pruning! That is the great trial both for men and trees, mother.

None of us like it, but the ash-tree makes the best of it." "What did she say to all this rigmarole about trees ?" "She said there was something very human about trees, that she had often watched them tewing with a great wind, tossing and fretting, but very seldom giving way to it.

And she added, 'They are a great deal more human than mountains.

I really think they talk about people among themselves.

I have heard those ash-trees laughing and whispering together.