The Book of the Tree - how artists have been drawn to the calm and beauty of the arboreal Angus Hyland,Kendra Wilson and Nancy Durrant People who love trees assume that others share this understanding, yet most of us remain unenlightened. The term ‘tree-hugger’ is always derogative, when really we would all benefit from planting more trees to hug. In the 1957 film Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn’s naive and dreamy character is eccentric enough to care more about trees than about clothes. “Trees are beautiful. Why don’t you photograph trees?” she asks. The character played by Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, responds that his career depends on supply and demand: “You’d be amazed at how small the demand is for pictures of trees.”