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| Giulia Dall'Olio g19 2018 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Damien Borowik One Tree 2015 machine drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| William Richard Lethaby Study of Trees ca. 1890-1910 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Nancy Rexroth Three Trees, Amesville, Ohio 1976 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Josef Sudek Twisted Tree ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Chris Shaw Today it's a Grey Rainy Day in the North of England ca. 2007-2012 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Harry Callahan Multiple Exposure Tree, Chicago 1956 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| George Seeley Tree 1917 platinum print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Charles Nègre Grasse: A Lemon Tree 1852 salted paper print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Gustave Le Gray Tree Study, Forest of Fontainebleau ca. 1856 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Beasley Greene Tree at the Side of a Road in France ca. 1850-60 waxed paper negative Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| John Chislett Tree and Shadows 1910 platinum print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Géza Maróti Trees at Hvittrask 1920 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Rodolphe Bresdin Tree bending in the Wind before 1885 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Angrand A Clearing ca. 1893-96 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jake Berthot Tree at Eden Rock 2001 oil on panel Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Marcus Aurelius Rose
From the five good emperors
I have learned that there were five good emperors,
From the lemon tree I've planted
now I know that leaves unpummeled yet will drop,
From the clock, the time, it's five p.m.,
from the sun the length of day,
From Quercus borealis, the queer names of the leaves
of all the trees,
From burning I've learned burning,
from the aster family chicory abounds,
From hawkweed of the colors bright,
from sleeping, of my dreams,
From mosquitoes, scratching, from fishes, fishing,
from turkeys how to run and how to hop,
From erect perennials I've learned to reach the shelf,
from my cats to lick the dark part of the tin,
From the sparrow I've learned this and that,
from Germanic tribes, to gather thoughts in herds,
From the window blinds, from the sun decayed,
from the heart, a brimming record braised and turned.
– Lisa Jarnot (2008)