What we can learn from ‘a white pine tree growing in some shallow soil on a rocky outcropping’

What we can learn from ‘a white pine tree growing in some shallow soil on a rocky outcropping’

From an artistic point of view, the surviving tree is not pretty, and it will probably never amount to anything that might be described as majestic. Neither does it qualify as something like an "ugly duckling" — misplaced and waiting…