They have great vitality and are adapted to hostile conditions. The pine seeds grow wherever they fall: in cracks in rocks, on precipices. Thus they appear in tenacious postures, even clinging crazily to sheer crags. In late Autumn, when other trees have shed their leaves and the flowers have all withered, often all that is left is the "lone pine on a winter ridge."
它生命力旺盛，適應惡地，有那麼一些松子落在石頭裂縫、懸崖峭壁上成長，因此出現孤松倒掛倚絕壁的堅忍之姿；深秋之後，百樹俱凋，百花皆謝，往往只留「冬嶺秀孤松」。