The Man who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins

This is the true story of David Millarch and his quest to save the genetic material of the world's oldest trees. He considers this of utmost importance as  these are the trees with proven survivability.  His method is to find what he calls Champion trees and clone them.  As our climate changes, these are the trees that have proven that they can survive.  His story begins with a near death experience during after which he said he had received instructions that this was to be his purpose in life.  One would think that cloning the world's oldest trees would be a very straight forward process but it has been anything but straight forward.  To begin with, he didn't know how to clone, he didn't know where the trees were located, and had no money to do it anyway.  How he is doing it is a tribute to the virtue of perseverance.  It is an interesting read and with the exception of a little pseudoscience, well worth reading.   Chinese proverb:      When is the best time to plant a tree?  Twenty years ago.      When is the second best time to plant a tree?  Today.