Jim Robbins is a frequent contributor to the science section of The New York Times. He has written for Smithsonian, Audubon, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, Scientific American, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Psychology Today, Gourmet, and Condé Nast Traveler. He lives in Helena, Montana.
“This is a story of miracles and obsession and love and survival.
Told with Jim Robbins’s signature clarity and eye for telling
detail, The Man Who Planted Trees is also the most hopeful book
I’ve read in years. I kept thinking of the end of Saint Francis’s
wonderful prayer, ‘And may God bless you with enough foolishness to
believe that you can make a difference in the world, so that you
can do what others claim cannot be done.’ ”—Alexandra Fuller,
author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
“Absorbing, eloquent, and loving . . . While [Jim] Robbins’s tone
is urgent, it doesn’t compromise his crystal-clear science. . . .
Even the smallest details here are fascinating.”—Dominique
Browning, The New York Times Book Review
“The great poet W. S. Merwin once wrote, ‘On the last day of the
world I would want to plant a tree.’ It’s good to see, in this
lovely volume, that some folks are getting a head start!”—Bill
McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New
Planet
“Inspiring . . . Robbins lucidly summarizes the importance and
value of trees to planet Earth and all humanity.”—The Ecologist
“ ‘Imagine a world without trees,’ writes journalist Jim Robbins.
It’s nearly impossible after reading The Man Who Planted Trees, in
which Robbins weaves science and spirituality as he explores the
bounty these plants offer the planet.”—Audubon
“Scientists can be confined by their own thinking—they know what
they know. It’s amazing for one layman to come up with the idea of
saving champion trees as a meaningful way to address the issues of
biodiversity and climate change. This could be a grassroots
solution to a global problem. A few million people selecting and
planting the right trees for the right places could really make a
difference.”—Ramakrishna Nemani, earth scientist
“When a veteran science reporter meets an unlikely mystic to whom
otherworldly spirits have given a mission—to save the DNA of the
world’s champion trees—you know you’re in for a good story. Jim
Robbins takes us along on a journey full of discovery, passion, and
urgency and shows how one man’s near-death experience may help the
world’s forests survive theirs.”—Dayton Duncan, author of The
National Parks: America’s Best Idea
“This provocative and stimulating look at an emerging aspect of
environmental study should serve as a clarion call to those
concerned with the fate of the world’s forests as well as of the
stately shade trees in their own backyards.”—Booklist
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