MUST LOVE TREES: An Unconventional Guide
Coming April 11, 2023 from Quarto Publishing
“If I do believe in God or some kind of God, which seems to change on a whim these days, I’d imagine that the book I’ve written tells me the following: my Godhead spends as much time marveling in their creation as they do cracking jokes about it.”
Join Tobin Mitnick, a shameless tree lover, as I lead you, the tree-curious, through the wonderful world of North American forests with fact, opinion, and humor.
In Must Love Trees, Mitnick invites you to share his deeply personal connection to our forest companions in ways that expand the storied genre of nature writing, from an imagined dialogue with the world’s oldest Bristlecone Pine, to the minutiae of tree huggability, to the emotional toll of taking up the practice of bonsai.
Ending with Mitnick’s detailed description of a tree in action and his thorough run-down of our most-treasured North American trees (all 100 of whom happen to be classmates at “Tree High North America”), Must Love Trees is an original and occasionally outlandish guide for both the budding and seasoned tree-lover.
Part textbook, part memoir, and part comedy, Must Love Trees is the most complete—and most unconventional—story of our forest pals ever told.