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"To learn about a plant species is to learn far more than the jagged edge of the leaf, the twist of the root, the diameter of the fruit. The study of botany is the study of plants, the animals and people who may eat them or use them — or more likely, destroy them — the study of invasive species, agriculture, climate change, history and the dogged, the charmed, the adventurous botanists who sought out trees, and plants, and blooms and berries. Georgann Eubanks’ Saving the Wild South is all of these things and more. Her lyrical prose, generous descriptions, deft hand with 19th-century botanists and their escapades, and, perhaps most importantly, her determined journey to see these plants and talk to those who are trying to preserve biodiversity in the wild South make this book revelatory, joyous and sobering."
--Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Southern Review of Books, November 10, 2021
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