Leeds, England, 1910: The world premiere of "A Sea Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composer himself conducted the chorus and orchestra. The text of this choral symphony is from Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass". Whitman’s poem "Passage to India" is in the finale of the symphony, and from this poem my favorite verse is: "Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?" A grotesque vision of a man with his legs rooted into the ground we can find on the triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch, from the year 1504. The second one I like is a Picabia’s drawing of a tree with the faces, on the cover of surrealist review Littérature, Paris, 1922.