This, if i’m not wrong, was declared by Rilke with “the tree doesn’t edge itself”, going on by saying that the onlooker is the one throwing the sky (consciousness) around the tree, thus giving it the background against which it’s perceived and against which acquires meaning. Without the observer there remains a vacuous “view from nowhere” and the tree is “edgeless”.. most certainly not what we see or mean by ‘tree’.