This short memoir is a homage to the trees that I have touched and that have sustained me. Please don't call me a tree hugger, though. Yes, I have hugged trees, but it was for my sake, not theirs, and that makes all the difference. I love trees in the way that Pan troglodytes loves trees, for we have lived in them and they have sustained us. For my part, I have also cut them down, burned their logs to stay warm in winter and created things from their wood. Indeed, trees have truly sustained me.