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Our photography in England was greatly aided with

assistance from Brian Muelaner, ancient-tree expert, who shared

his knowledge of both the Ankerwycke Yew and Isaac Newton’s

Apple Tree. Also thanks to Margaret Winn, conservation

manager, and Stephen Shepherd, at Woolsthorpe Manor,

Lincolnshire, England, for help with the Newton Apple Tree.

For help with the Walt Whitman Trees in Fredericksburg,

Virginia, thanks to Elizabeth B. Ottarson and Eric J. Mink of the

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park.

Thanks to Jane Custer, Joseph Calzarette, and Linc

Beers at Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland,

for help with the Burnside Sycamore.

To Yuri R. Milligan and Gianina A. Thompson,

Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, for assistance with the

Emancipation Oak.

Thanks to Dennis and Carolyn Devine, owners of the

Witness Tree Vineyard in Salem, Oregon, and to Steven Westby,

winemaker and vineyard manager, for granting us access to that

stately white oak.

For their help with the Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial

in New York City, thanks to Ronaldo Vega and Margaret Barng.

For the survivor elm in Oklahoma City, thanks to Mark

Bays, State of Oklahoma Department of Forestry, and MaryAnn

Eckstein at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

Thanks to Amy Carter-James and Richard Nightingale

for help with the Palaver Tree in Mozambique, Africa.

Also, thanks to: Trisha Coder, California Department

of Transportation, for the Shoe Tree in Hallelujah Junction;

Deborah L. Hughes, Susan B. Anthony Home, Rochester, New

York, for Susan B. Anthony’s Horse Chestnut Tree; Lawrence

Jackson, the White House, Washington, DC, for the Jackson

Magnolia Tree; Ed and Virginia Leech, our gracious hosts in La

Grange, Texas, for the Muster Oak; Eva Alicia Lepiz, our guide in

Oaxacca, Mexico, for El Árbol de Tule; Travis Novitsky, our guide

in Grand Portage, Minnesota, for Little Spirit Cedar Tree; Gary

Olson, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, for the Discovery Tree;

Ajay Pandey, our fixer in Varanasi, India; Gretchen Riley, Texas

A&M Forest Service, for help with numerous trees in Texas; and

John Zapell, Fishlake Forest Service, Utah, for Pando.

Finally, recognition to our extraordinary subjects, for

whom we have enduring admiration—the journey does not

end here.