It seems incredible that one could own a tree. Trees outlive us. They tower above us. Reach farther to the sun. Sink deeper into the ground. Trees do let us cut them down as if they were simple fodder for our rampaging industries. But the trees are wise and know that in the end, they will eventually return to the earth and become again a tree, and a forest. It’s said if humans left the planet, in a hundred years there would be no sign, not one monument or tower, to say humans had been here at all. If trees left the planet, no human would survive. We should not act as if we own the trees.