From Tessa Bielecki, from her Falling in Love (with the desert) essay just published in our University of Arizona Press anthology:
“What do I learn from saguaros? Endurance, adaptability, generosity, a sense of mystery and awe. The longer I look at a saguaro cactus, the more I notoce how many of them carry multiple beautiful scars. So their greatest lesson for me is the healing of wounds.”