but our hearts did not go on growing in the same way : the ents gave their love to things that they met in the world , and the entwives gave their thought to other things , for the ents loved the great trees ; and the wild woods , and the slopes of the high hills ; and they drank of the mountain-streams , and ate only such fruit as the trees let fall in their path ; and they learned of the elves and spoke with the trees .