The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet (Hardcover) by Jim Robbins

from buchowl

Qirky, very quirky. It would be hard to imagine a less likely environmental hero than David Milarch. Hard drinking and hard living, David's idea of a fun time is arm wrestling or a bar fight. That is until he has a Near Death Experience in which angels charge him with a mission. He is to go forth...

from ryan.adams

Pretty amazing book about both the stories of different tree types and David Milarch, the man behind a huge task of saving and replanting trees across the earth. Parts of it got a bit hokey with some metaphysical items... but the overall gist of the book is strong. Great call to action for all of...

from lquilter

Copy received through LibraryThing Early Reviewers (LTER). A mixture of activist biography, science, and tree lore. Highly recommended for dendrophiles (the platonic sort), and climate change anxietists. The book itself is hopeful, although it doesn't present David Milarch's quest as a panace...

from brendajanefrank

Jim Robbins gave me a new perspective and respect for trees, and, as a master gardener, I already had a healthy appreciation for them. I started counting the number of trees that I had planted during the last few years, and wishing that everyone had planted even one tree. "The Man Who Planted Tre...

from lbeaumont

This book is a rare and wonderful mix of warm-hearted storytelling, hard-headed science reporting, and a smattering of mysticism integrated into an inspiring true story of how one man's actions are now working to restore and reinvigorate the forests and help heal the planet. The most grand and sp...