Familiar yet alien, trees inspire awe: existing beyond our human scale with heights up to 60 times our own, life spans up to 100; and holding a strange intelligence, talking via a foreign chemical language, alerting each other to dangers, signaling distress, coming to each other’s aid. We grant them mystical powers, spiritual, even religious status. We live among them, yet struggle to know them. And each is unique, as distinct as a snowflake, a fingerprint, as each one of us.