I am more sure to come away cheered from a pine wood than from those who come nearest to being my friends.

"A pine wood is as substantial and as memorable a fact as a friend.  I am more sure to come away from it cheered than from those who come nearest to being my friends."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: The orange bark of two Ponderosa Pines glows in last light; Lumpy Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; February 23, 2013