Trees in Bozeman

From the kitchen window of Cait and Mike's house you see a beautiful, dark green pine forest. From the living room you look out on aspens, a couple of apple trees, and lilac bushes almost as big as trees. Down the street are smokey-blue firs and graceful birch. At the end of the gondola ride in Big Sky you are above the tree line. Trees everywhere.

"Trees"
by W. S. Merwin

I am looking at trees

they may be one of the things
I will miss most from the earth

though many of the ones I have seen

already I cannot remember

and though I seldom embrace the ones I see

and have never been able to speak

with one I listen to them tenderly

their names have never touched them

they have stood round my sleep

and when it was forbidden to climb them

they have carried me in their branches.