I will never cease being attracted to one lone tree standing in a field. There seems to be something majestic as well as vulnerable about this motif. It stands tall and the view is not hindered so the tree is free to impress us with its beauty through the seasons. But it stands alone and is therefore exposed to the full forces of nature i.e. wind, snow, rain, sun. But it adapts and prospers despite these external forces.
Darwin said that it is not the strongest or the most intelligent that survives but the one that adapts best to change. Seems to me that my lone tree lives quite the same life we do.