The Point : How did your passion for the trees she is born ?

Richard Powers : I have to admit, not without shame, that I had never paid great attention to trees until I taught at Stanford university, California, in 2012. One day, I went to go for a walk in the Redwood Forest, the forest of giant redwood trees that borders the Silicon Valley. It is here that I had a revelation, almost mystical. I surplombais the largest firms of the technology world, Google, Apple, Facebook, and I suddenly realized that California would probably not have known about the…

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