A tree is beautiful; it is God’s creation, but it is not intelligent.

Man is intelligent, in God’s image, and are we to believe that God loves a tree more than man, that a tree after it is cut down will sprout and grow again, but man—no; even though he has lived in his miseries here, God torments him more after death? None of us like death. We should like to sprout again as a green tree does, and we should like to live in pleasant surroundings, if only we knew how.

For there exists hope for even a tree.
If it gets cut down, it will even sprout again,
And its own twig will not cease to be.
 

If its root grows old in the earth
And in the dust its stump dies,At the scent of water it will sprout
And it will certainly produce a bough like a new plant.
 

But an able-bodied man dies and lies vanquished;
And an earthling man expires, and where is he?

-Job 14:7-10, Dy