Humans run from danger. Humans are regenerating systems that restore injured and infected parts back in old spatial positions. Humans, at best, live about a hundred years. Most trees are still very young at the age of one hundred. Trees are forgiving organisms.
Trees are more than big sticks of dead wood.
Trees do not heal, they compartmentalize infections. This process makes it possible for trees to outlive humans, even when constantly mutilated. So, humans are supposed to be so great because of their big brain that can think, learn, make decisions, and predict events yet to happen. The basic advantage trees have is that they have evolved with defense as their theme. Their construction, physiology, chemistry, physics and all their other properties and processes have developed with defense as a theme.