“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...

Climate change experts and urban foresters tell us that planting trees is one of the most significant ways that we, as individuals, can help battle climate change. Trees do so much — they cool the ...