In an article entitled “The Big Idea: Clone Ancient Trees to Save Planet Earth,” Reader’s Digest shares The Man Who Planted Trees with the world as a “Noteworthy Book.”
“David Milarch is a pioneering spirit who believes that cloning huge ancient trees—such as the remaining Giant Sequoias in California— is the key to saving the planet,” describes Reader’s Digest author Dawn Raffel. “He explains: “Because they are survivors—several hundred to several thousand years old—they hold the entire genetic history of their species and they are one of the key components of ecosystem structure.”
