Birch Trees

Birch trees, so elegant with rough white bark and tall slender branches. Birch trees in Dallas this summer and in Keystone, Colorado this spring.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. 

~ Wilson Flagg

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews
a weary spirit.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

~ Robert Frost, Birch Trees