Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.

Today's episode is a special one. It's personal, it's urgent, and it's going to stay with you.

My guest is Marguerite Holloway, journalist, author, and professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

You might know her from her book, The Measure of Manhattan,

or from her writing in Scientific American, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and other places.

She has a gift for telling stories where science meets the human experience. Her new book,

Take to the Trees, is a powerful and deeply moving example of that.

It begins with something many of us can relate to, the need to find comfort in nature.

After a personal loss, Marguerite turns to the trees looking for peace.

But what she finds is something more complicated.

Trees in cities and forests all over the world are in trouble climate change development invasive species

disease it's a quiet crisis and it's accelerating this conversation is about that tension

the comfort trees offer us and the discomforting truth about what's happening to them. It's also Marguerite's journey

through grief, discovery, and wonder as she listens to the people who are trying to understand

and protect these living beings that shape the world. If you've ever felt connected to a tree

or noticed the loss of one, without quite having the words for what it meant, this episode is for

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