Woolf contemplates the life a tree and a fish to depict the idea of the ‘stillness of living, breathing thought’. She says “Wood is a pleasant thing to think about it. It comes from a tree, and trees grow, and we don’t know how they grow”. The phenomena of a tree quietly growing without any external interference describes how nature works in solitude in its own way. She further explains it using the imagery of a fish saying, “I like to think of the fish balanced against the stream like flags blown out” to describe the still nature around us which is often left unseen.