Wild Trees

1. Preston describes the wild trees as living "at the outer limit of biology, on the edge of the possible." Many of his characters seem to also live by this concept in their lives, near-deaths and through their discoveries. Analyze how this concept manifests itself in different aspects of the story (different aspects might include setting, characters, plot, etc.).

Outline

Motivation to climb the trees

-Find the worlds tallest tree

-What they love to do

Risks

-Stressful
-Story of falling of kevin hillery and the girl
-mom story of her falling out of the tree (the first anecdote in the book)

-Weather conditions

Addicting tree climbing and about trees

-mental effects climbing has

-friends make you want to still climb

-family or trees

-Steve lost his wife for trees

-taught him self how to use the 3d movement and the spider rope

-one tool that was made up to calculate the angles of the trees (around the beginning)

-create names for each redwood tree they see

Dedication (pg 202)
-michael quit college to focus on trees-bad idea goes back to college