Elderflora

Jared Farmer brings both classic and state-of-the-art botany alive . . . he shows singular insight into how we do what we do – and perhaps more importantly – why we spend our lives studying trees.Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl

While it is true that the trees have no tongues, that doesn’t mean they don’t speak to us . . . Read Jared Farmer’s lucid and fascinating book to discover the . . . mysteries told by elderflora.Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War

Sacred trees . . . are at the root of historian Jared Farmer’s magisterial study of arboreal longevity, but like the outstretched limbs of a luxuriant elm, his narrative extends over a broad range of social and scientific issues.Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History

The book succeeds as a cultural history of the conservation ideal that led society to forest preservation.David W. Stahle, Science