If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

OK, this is based on the question for which Barbara Walters was widely lampooned in the early 80s, the story was that she asked this question of Katherine Hepburn. Reality is that Katherine Hepburn told Barbara Walters that she would like to be a tree, thus initiating the topic, and Barbara simply responded “what kind of tree?” But of course as legends have a way of snowballing, this one took on a life of its own.

So, for years, I was under the mistaken impression that this was just some weird left field question that Barbara asked someone out of the blue one day, and because of that, it always fascinated me. And even once I learned the difference between the truth and the legend, it still fascinated me, because the question is so confounding. I mean, I have no idea how I would answer that question. I simply have never had the desire to be a tree, and do not know enough about the individual characteristics of different types of trees to form an analogy to my own personality. I guess if I HAD to answer it, I’d probably want to be a palm tree because if I had to live my life outside naked, I’d want to do it in a warm climate.

But it intrigues me nonetheless, and even if I am the first person to ever seriously ask this question, so be it. How would YOU answer that question, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would YOU be?