Wizards are always troubled about the future. I do not like worrying about the future. I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is all together on my side, if you understand me: nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even the Elves nowadays.

— Treebeard

This passage is from Chapter 4 – Treebeard.

Here Pippin and Merry meet Treebeard and catch him on up on all the scuttlebutt of Orcs, Riders of Rohan, Tom Bombadil, and more.

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings. United States, Ballantine Books, 1965. pg 75