Pulitzer Prize winning writer and poet Alice Walker wrote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” Well, that may be true unless said tree has been “Lollipopped.” As the old adage goes, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and reasonable minds can certainly differ on the beauty and aesthetics of trees in a residential environment. And furthermore, how does one even begin to assign a value to something as subjective as the aesthetic value of a tree?