There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
