“My favorite new book this season is Seeing Trees. . . . This book is made for us nearsighted gardeners, who long ago learned the thrill of peering at plants.” —The New York Times
“This fascinating celebration of trees will delight gardeners, botanists, students of natural history, and nature photographers.” —Library Journal
“The authors have brought the level of observation to new heights.” —The Washington Post
“Seek out the Seeing series, and prepare for your breath to be taken away.” —NYBG’s Plant Talk
“Vivid, fascinating botanical biographies.” —Reader’s Digest
“The resulting images are full of detail.” —Outdoor Photographer Magazine
“Beautifully produced and photographed. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about this fascinating group of plants, both in the wild or in your backyard.” —Martha Stewart Living
“You can't help but be bowled over by the beauty at play in the science.” —Chicago Tribune
“A botanical masterpiece.” —Horticulture Magazine
“The book to change us all into unabashed tree worshippers.” —Seattle Times
“A splendid book.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“You’ll be dazzled.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
A beautifully produced and photographed new book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about this fascinating group of plants both in the wild or in your backyard.
- Mary Beth Breckenridge
Filled with arresting close-ups.
- Kathy Purdy
You’ll be dazzled.
- Kathy Zarsky
Seeing Trees opens our eyes to a tree's shy magnificence and invites us to deepen our relationship with these earthly treasures.
- Sandy Hausman
Seeing Trees opens our eyes to a tree’s shy magnificence and invites us to deepen our relationship with these earthly treasures.
- Jim Chatfield
“Vivid, fascinating botanical biographies.”
- Dominique Browning
"The resulting images are full of detail.”
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
“A whole new world of tree mystery has opened up.”
“If you love trees, or if you love good photography, you will love this book.”
“Gorgeous images & observations.”
“You will begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way.”
"Hugo writes with real passion about trees, describing their qualities, flowers, fruits, barks, and unique characteristics, and including her own observations and experiments with cuttings and seedlings. She is articulate and enthusiastic, making this an ideal volume for beginning observers of trees."
“This fascinating celebration of trees will delight gardeners, botanists, students of natural history, and nature photographers.”
“The book to change us all into unabashed tree worshippers.”
“A splendid book.”
"The only way I can describe my reaction to receiving Seeing Trees was like a child being taken into a sweet shop.”
“A beautiful and exciting book.”
“Hugo writes with real passion about trees…. Beautifully produced and fascinating to read.”
“A botanical masterpiece.”
“Filled with surprises.”
“Their call to seeing what nature offers is magical and the photographs are works of art.”
"This seems like the sort of book which sprinkles a bit of fairy dust on something we see everyday, so that just taking a walk or stepping outside feels magical and fresh."
“If you love books and nature, this is one to own for reference and to ponder during the long winter months.”
“A captivating book.”
“A gorgeous book, a great reference and a beautiful addition to the nature lover’s bookshelf.”
“Will take your breath away.”
“My favorite new book this season is Seeing Trees…This book is made for us nearsighted gardeners, who long ago learned the thrill of peering at plants.”
“You can't help but be bowled over by the beauty at play in the science.”
“The authors have brought the level of observation to new heights.”
“Through [Llewellyn’s] lens we take flight with a red maple’s charming helicopterlike seed pods and can almost feel the smooth, muscular, steel-gray bark of an ironwood.”
“Llewellyn’s extraordinarily crisp photographs alone force the reader to consider trees differently, if only because there are so few illustrations of entire trees, trunk, crown and all.”
"An idiosyncratic portrait of common trees and their life span, Hugo’s book introduces aspects of tree culture that delight and bemuse."