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14. “caused 2.5 million people to leave” Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), 49.
15. “initiated by Aldo Leopold” A. C. Leopold, “Living with the Land Ethic,” Bioscience 54, no. 2 (February 2004): 149–54. “The Leopold Family Shack and Farm,” Aldo Leopold Foundation, accessed August 25, 2013, http://www.aldoleopold.org/programs/shack.shtml. Craig Maier, “Building Leopold’s Legacy,” American Forests 112, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 41–44. James Morton Turner, The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics Since 1964 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012).
16. “nearly thirty years” Christopher Johnson, “Restoring the Prairie,” E: The Environmental Magazine 18, no. 4 (July 2007): 14–15.
17. “corridors can be crucial” Lars A. Brudvig et al., “Landscape Connectivity Promotes Plant Biodiversity Spillover into Non-target Habitats,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 23 (June 2009): 9328–32. E. A. Calçada et al., “Streams Are Efficient Corridors for Plant Species in Forest Communities,” Journal of Applied Ecology 50, no. 4 (August 19, 2013), doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12132. S. T. Sharma et al., “Forest Corridors Maintain Historical Gene Flow in a Tiger Metapopulation in the Highlands of Central India,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280 (2013): 20131506.
18. “20 percent more plant species” Brudvig, op. cit.
19. “protest a plan to build a water-bottling factory” Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff, The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), 165.
20. “crushed red pepper and elephant dung” “Education & Community Outreach,” SOS Elephants, accessed August 26, 2013, http://www.soselephants.org/education.html. Loki Osborne and Guy Parker, “An Integrated Approach Toward Problem Animal Management,” Wildlife Conservation Society, accessed August 26, 2013, http://albertinerift.org/portals/49/media/file/hwapp1eles.pdf.
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1. “Hawaiian tree that was ‘discovered’ ” Kokia Cookei,” CPC National Collection Plant Profile, last modified March 4, 2010, http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/collection/cpc_viewprofile.asp?CPCNum=2385.
2. “thirty years later one tree was found” Ibid.
3. “Five years later” Ibid.
4. “twelve years later, in 1930” Ibid.
5. “died in about 1950” Ibid.
6. “one more single adult tree was found” Ibid.
7. “Eight years after it had been found” Ibid. David Liittschwager, Remains of a Rainbow: Rare Plants and Animals of Hawai‘i (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2001), 27–28.
8. “was grafted onto a related species” Liittschwager, op. cit., 27–28.
9. “more plants from that original graft were distributed” Ibid.
10. “finally managed to get viable seeds” Eric P. Olsen, “Hawaii Plantsman Confounds Greenies,” Insight on the News 19, no. 5 (February 2003): 36–39.
11. “director of the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program” “Kokia cookei (Cooke’s koki‘o): 5-Year Review Summary and Evaluation,” US Fish and Wildlife Service, January 2008, http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/five_year_review/doc1844.pdf.
12. “embryos that are germinating” E-mail conversation between the author and Nellie Sugii.
13. “planted in 1850 as a temple tree” Hiromi Tsuchida and Peter del Tredici, “Hibaku Trees of Hiroshima,” Arnoldia 53, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 25–29. Michel Pierre-Francois, Ginkgo biloba: l’Arbre Qui a Vaincu le Temps (Paris: Felin, 1999). “A-bombed Ginkgo Trees in Hiroshima, Japan,” Gingko Pages, accessed August 25, 2013, http://kwanten.home.xs4all.nl/hiroshima.htm.
14. “ ‘I could crawl into this little bed and die right there’ ” “Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero,” Discovery Channel, accessed August 25, 2013, http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/the-rising/rebuilding-ground-zero-videos/rebuilding-ground-zero-survivor-tree.htm.
15. “ ‘We are both survivors’ ” Richie Cabo (administrative horticulturist/manager, Arthur Ross Citywide Nursery of The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation), in discussion with the author.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Foreword by Michael Pollan
PART ONE
My Love for the Natural World
Chapter 1. A Childhood Rooted in Nature
Chapter 2. The Kingdom of the Plants
Chapter 3. Trees
Chapter 4. Forests
PART TWO
Hunting, Gathering, and Gardening
Chapter 5. The Plant Hunters
Chapter 6. Botanical Gardens
Chapter 7. Seeds
Chapter 8. Orchids
Chapter 9. Gardens and Gardening
PART THREE
Uses and Abuses of Plants
Chapter 10. Plants That Can Heal
Chapter 11. Plants That Can Harm
Chapter 12. Plantations
Chapter 13. Food Crops
Chapter 14. Genetically Modified Organisms
PART FOUR
The Way Forward
Chapter 15. The Future of Agriculture
Chapter 16. Growing Our Own Food
Chapter 17. Saving Forests
Chapter 18. Hope for Nature
Chapter 19. The Will to Live
Photos
Also By Jane Goodall
Gratitude
Notes
Newsletters
Copyright
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