Quotations from Along some Rivers, by Robert Adams. Cottonwoods can seem human-they seem to rejoice and they seem to suffer. But they also seem to know a stillness that we can[t experience.The example of trees does suggest a harmony for which it seems right to dream. Lakota refer to the cottonwood as the dreaming tree, a place of visions.Willa Cather wrote in the Song of the Lark, which is set on the Colorado plains, that cottonwoods are "wind-loving trees&hell [...]
