'Sublime ... Non-fiction rarely sees a debut like The Genius of Trees. It is a true masterpiece' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5 Stars‘Wondrous. Gives us trees as we've never seen them before’ ISABELLA TREE, author of Wilding'Mind-blowing' GUARDIANThe Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes. Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve.