Many years later, she meets a group of scientists who tell her that a newfound respect for her ideas has grown. Embarrassed, she retreats from academic life and takes odd jobs that allow her to spend time in America’s forests. After being initially well-received, the paper is savaged by her peers. This fascination leads to her studying botany and forestry she becomes convinced that trees are social creatures and publishes a paper on the subject. She travels with her father, learning about nature.

Patricia Westerford is born with a hearing defect. At college, he is inspired by a garden and decides to make a video game that reflects the beauty of the natural world. Confined to a wheelchair, his love for coding grows. One day, he falls from a tree and is paralyzed by his injuries. His father buys a computer, and Neelay falls in love with coding. Neelay Mehta is the son of Indian immigrants. Injured, he is sent home, where he plants trees to make amends for the destruction he has caused. Afterward, he enlists in the military and is sent to Vietnam. Needing money, he enrolls as a prisoner in the Stanford Prison Experiment. After several engagements, they finally marry.ĭouglas “Douggie” Pavlicek is orphaned as a teenager. Dorothy accepts but then changes her mind. Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly begin dating, both acting in a production of Macbeth. He develops an interest in nature and eventually is accepted to a college to study psychology.

Winston kills himself, feeling he has no purpose any longer, and Mimi must deal with the aftermath of his suicide.Īdam Appich is a loner as a child. She grows up to be an engineer and takes a well-paid job that allows her to travel the world. She and her sisters travel to America’s national parks with her father. Mimi Ma is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant named Winston. The life insurance money allows him to live on the farm and create art pieces, which no one buys, focused mainly on the chestnut tree that was planted by his ancestors. Nicolas Hoel, a young artist who lacks direction returns home for Christmas and finds his family dead from a gas leak. The Hoel family are descended from Norwegian immigrants who moved from New York to a farm in Iowa.

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