Palm trees or oak trees, forest or seaside, there's nothing quite as calming as spending time with a tree. Whether you're searching for relaxation, solitude, refreshing, or beauty, a tree offers shade and stillness like no other place on earth.

Since the dawn of time, man has been drawing and painting images of trees -- on the walls of caves and the canvases of the masters. The oldest living tree is a Norway spruce in Sweden, which took root at the end of the last Ice Age. It's estimated to be 9,550 years old!