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"""As Daily points out, trees come in at least 60,000 varieties. Over their some 400 million year history, they have staked their claim in nearly every terrestrial environment and have enriched humankind in ways that simply can't be calculated.""-- Shelflife ""Daily, a conservation biologist, and her friend Katz visited the Skagit River region in Washington State, where Daily found consolation during the slow death of her father. The lyrical little book she has written in the aftermath is a window into the world of ""the longest-lived organisms on Earth,"" a way of transcending pain through an appreciation of what's right in front of you. We can, she reminds us, read the past in a tree's rings, as we would read the pages of a book.""-- New York Times Book Review ""The Power of Trees is not a coffee-table piece, but rather a science-based title for the poetry section, with a beauty best appreciated up close - like the veins of a leaf, so similar to our own.""-- Monterey County Weekly ""This compact book has a powerful message -- just how integral trees are to the world's biological systems.""-- The Seattle Times ""The Power of Trees, a slim new volume from Trinity University Press, is dense with information, as dense as heartwood, which can be 'as hard as steel' in some species.""-- The San Antonio Express-News ""In one small volume, The Power of Trees delivers a treatise on these silent giants that satisfies tree-huggers and skeptical science types alike.""-- Nature Magazine"

As Daily points out, trees come in at least 60,000 varieties. Over their some 400 million year history, they have staked their claim in nearly every terrestrial environment and have enriched humankind in ways that simply can't be calculated. -- Shelflife Daily, a conservation biologist, and her friend Katz visited the Skagit River region in Washington State, where Daily found consolation during the slow death of her father. The lyrical little book she has written in the aftermath is a window into the world of the longest-lived organisms on Earth, a way of transcending pain through an appreciation of what's right in front of you. We can, she reminds us, read the past in a tree's rings, as we would read the pages of a book. -- New York Times Book Review The Power of Trees is not a coffee-table piece, but rather a science-based title for the poetry section, with a beauty best appreciated up close - like the veins of a leaf, so similar to our own. -- Monterey County Weekly This compact book has a powerful message -- just how integral trees are to the world's biological systems. -- The Seattle Times The Power of Trees, a slim new volume from Trinity University Press, is dense with information, as dense as heartwood, which can be 'as hard as steel' in some species. -- The San Antonio Express-News In one small volume, The Power of Trees delivers a treatise on these silent giants that satisfies tree-huggers and skeptical science types alike. -- Nature Magazine

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Gretchen C. Daily's work spans scientific research, teaching, public education, and advancing practical approaches to environmental challenges. Her scientific research is on countryside biogeography and the future dynamics of biodiversity change; the scope for harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agriculture; quantifying the production and value of ecosystem services across landscapes; and new policy and finance mechanisms for integrating conservation and human development in major decisions. Daily, who is Bing Professor of Environmental Sciences at StanfordUniversity, cofounded and codirects the Natural Capital Project, an international partnership to mainstream the values of nature into major decisions of governments, businesses, and communities. Her honors include the Sophie Prize, the International Cosmos Prize, the Heinz Award, and the Midori Prize. She has published numerous scientific articles and books, including The Power of Trees, with photographs by Charles J. Katz Jr., and The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, cowritten with Katherine Ellison.

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