The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarchrsquos quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystemmdashas well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference.ldquoWhen is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.rdquomdashChinese proverb Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant for hard living, had a vision angels came to tell him that the earth was in trouble. Its trees were dying, and without them, human life was in jeopardy. The solution, they told him, was to clone the champion trees of the worldmdashthe largest, the hardiest, the ones that had survived millennia and were most resilient to climate changemdashand create a kind of Noahrsquos ark of tree genetics.
