Author: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: forest, philosophy, america, arboretum
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2003-10-03
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0472068512
ISBN-13: 9780472068517

Arboretum America is, at the very least, the Bible of Trees. But its ambitions are grander than that.Author Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a self-described "renegade scientist," aims for no less than the salvation of the planet -- through the miracle of trees.There are many books on both subjects. Some warm, some inform, while others meditate on the disappearance of the forests or the meaning of trees. Few books, though, touch on all of these subjects as Arboretum America does.Bereford’s remedy, what she calls the Bioplan, commences with a simple directive: know thy trees. Most important, this