from Library_Lin

I love trees, a good near-death experience story, and mystery. Jim Robbins crafted a marvelous book that switches back and forth between the story of David Milarch, who was told after a near-death experience to save the world's champion trees (the instructions came from Beings of Light), the hist...

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...