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The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, And An Urgent Plan To Save The Planet (2012)

by Jim Robbins(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1400069068 (ISBN13: 9781400069064)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: This wonderful,concise and persuasive book will open your eyes to how trees sustain the planet (you might think you know, but you don't really know -- unless you're already an expert) and how we must try to better understand all that they do, and of course quit chopping them down, before we lose all they provide. Indeed, we're already losing many of the benefits trees confer, a tragedy in motion that we see through the eyes of the "man who planted trees," an impassioned self-taught arborist and recovering alcoholic from Michigan. He wants to save the genetics of champion trees across the globe. I'll spare you any spoilers about how well he succeeds, and how he became a nut for trees. (Heh!) As we learn about the values of trees, and just visit some cool places, we're treat... moreed to concurrent narrative about how the most destructive species on earth (take a bow) has abused and under-appreciated them; making this a sort of real life companion to The Giving Tree.
review 2: i love trees so i was hoping for a good book and was not disappointed. very interesting tale with lots of scientific evidence to support the notion, trees are very important to the health of ourselves and the planet. living here on the dry wind swept prairie where trees are a real challenge to grow it is wonderful to read of a person who is making their life's work cloning important species of trees. less

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