Tree-wavings

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; 
but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. 
They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings -- many of them not so much. 

-John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)