Published: 2018, Penguin Genre: Fiction Themes: Trees and forests, logging, destruction of ecology My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ I felt I ought to go outside to get my photograph for this book because the whole purpose of it is to remind us that we are not the only living things that matter on our planet. Richard Powers gives us the stories of nine people whose lives have been altered by trees, but those stories are really only secondary to the message in the book. THERE IS ONLY ONE EARTH AND WE ARE MESSING IT UP I don't remember a time when I read something that made such an impact on me. By the time I was a third through the book I was starting to see the damage here in my town - let alone the rest of the world! Trees hacked back because the fallen leaves are a nuisance, grass dug up and replaced with plastic grass that doesn't breath, concrete covering more and more space... I could go on. What most people don't realise is that nature knows what it is doing if ...