Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

A recently uncovered historical photograph confirms the exact location of Vincent van Gogh's last painting Tree Roots.

Vincent van Gogh - Tree Roots - Van Gogh Museum

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips.

He tasted dusty and sweet.

He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection.

She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers.

.She did not say goodbye.She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground.It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

They invite us to appreciate their soaring scale, in art works such as a monumental sculpture cast from a ,-year-old olive tree by Ugo Rondinone, a cinematic portrait of a -metre-high spruce tree by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and a vast forest of trees constructed entirely from cardboard by Eva Jospin.

This smart, urgent show of contemporary art is full of startling and moving things, including a ,-year-old yew still standing in a British churchyard, and a baobab forest growing underground in South Africa.

Among the Trees Southbank Centre