This book was painful to get through which was disappointing as a woman in science who usually enjoys these kinds of books. The way it was written felt very scatter-brained. A page/paragraph would start off on one thought then a couple sentences in you are getting sidetracked with an onslaught of lists, procedures, people, bugs, birds, etc.. To me, I think the science and lessons learned from the trees was lost in the noise. The only thing I was able to retain was about figs and wasps because it was lowkey horrifying. The blurbs about certain species of trees in between chapters were actually okay too.