“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
I think these figs on Cockatoo Island are Ficus rubiginosa (Port Jackson fig) but I am not sure - their roots help them to anchor to cliff faces and rock outcrops.
