Trees are significant in many of the world’s mythologies and religions, and have been given deep and sacred meanings throughout the ages. Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees, and the annual death and revival of their foliage, have often seen them as powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth.

The tree of life is a widespread archetype in the world’s mythologies, related to the concept of sacred tree more generally, and hence in religious and philosophical tradition.(Wikipedia)