Bello a posteriori . Bello avere un’ideale così radicato per cui vivere. Peccato che la Hill e il suo team di supporto a terra abbiano salvato “una” sola sequoia, ma la maggior parte della foresta di cui faceva parte sia stata rasa al suolo con conseguenti ingenti danni per l’ecosistema e per i villaggi della zona costantemente minacciati e investiti dalle frane. Bello il nome dato alla sequoia, Luna.

A me piange il cuore pensare a quante foreste antiche vengano distrutte per il solo subitaneo guadagno monetario, foreste che nemmeno in 100 anni si rigenereranno. Ma l’umanità sta già pagando e pagherà un caro prezzo per questo.

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Così il 3 luglio festeggiammo la giornata dell’Interdipendenzaper aiutare la gente a capire come l’intera vita è vitalmente e complessamente interconnessa – e quindi interdipendente:dall’aria che respiriamo alle sequoie più grandi agli insetti microscopici e ai funghi. E’ una sola vita e noi siamo in mezzo a tutto e, sia che lo sappiamo o meno, dipendenti da tutte le specie viventi. Ogni volta che una specie si estingue, una parte della nostra vita viene alterata per sempre. Se strappi un filo l’intero arazzo comincia a sfilarsi.

This book is truly incredible, and I only wish everyone in this country would read it and receive it's meaning. While certainly not winning any prizes for style or literary merit, Julia Butterfly has such a wise and grounded slant on the amazing 2 years that were her life in a Redwood tree.

In many ways I felt a serious kinship with this woman, who was younger than I am now when she made the sacrifices she made, and in others I feel wholly inadequate in comparison.

She is a wonderful inspiration to anyone who feels the pull to live out each and every one of their core values with every breath...

Really a moving book and a call to action to all of us to save our little blue/green ball from complete devastation by corporate consciousness and our disconnect from nature..

I'd say read it, and tell me what you think!

Me encantó leer los pensamientos de Butterfly, sus emociones y lo que la llevó a realizar una labor de activismo tan fuerte, entregándose por completo a la causa. Como una persona involucrada en activismo social fie refrescante leer sobre luchas inspiradas en la acción y cómo a veces se burocratiza tanto todo que hasta la resistencia se vuelve algo elaborado, Julia sigue a su intuición y tiene una conexión con la existencia misma que la lleva a realizar estas acciones tan inspiradoras.
Un fuerte llamado de atención a no dejar de mirar a la naturaleza como parte de nuestra vida, a defenderla a toda costa, a disfrutar de su belleza.

I picked up this book 20 years ago after hearing JBH speak at an event about her experiences in Luna. Then, just as now, I remain amazed and inspired by her. What really comes through in the book is the amazing level of her dedication and determination, and the truly remarkable ability of her to stay positive and move forward with love. This is a book that is incredibly timely to read in light of the climate crisis we are facing, which needs much more of the level of dedication and activism that JBH showed.

LOVED THIS BOOK!! What a great story! She wanted to do something, and she went and did it. She stayed in a tree for over 2 years to protect it and other thousands of year old trees from being cut down and used as lumber. She is amazing! It made me want to go live in a tree. I'm going to do more research on Julia Butterfly Hill because she kicks ass. This is a perfect book and story (to me).

I remember this from the late 90's. I remember the story of Julia Butteryfly Hill and the tree that she tried to save. I had wondered for years what happened to her during that ordeal. The book is as a biography, manifesto, plea for help and a way to document this capstone moment in her life. I'm curious to see what happens in the next 20 years with environmental activists in our social media culture we live in. What would the impact be today of a nearly 2-year long tree sit. Hill did her campaign in a tree with early model cell-phones. It's a great read to learn about the history of the environmental movement in the late 90's especially for those of us that were affected by Hill and her call to action.

“Nature gives love to us every day, but we’ve forgotten how to listen, we’ve forgotten how to communicate, we’ve forgotten how to give back.”

I read the second half of this book while in a hammock in Crater Lake National Park, and, aside from being in the actual Redwoods, that was an absolute perfect place to read the wonders of Julia’s writing. The quote above, along with so many other lines throughout this book, made me tear up and oftentimes I had to stop to take in as much of her incredible emotion, passion, and pain as I could. As someone who has always longed to protect the environment indefinitely, I can’t begin to describe how much I relate to her love for the world around her on a spiritual, emotional, and physical level. At first, knowing she is a preacher’s daughter, I expected myself to turn away from parts of this book as I find myself doing when hearing too much about the Christian faith that I have never connected to. Instead, in hearing Julia’s perspective of the interconnected spiritual environment around us, her reliance on faith throughout her experience quickly became one of my favorite parts of this book. It’s easy to become exhausted when witnessing pure tragedy and destruction upon some of the most incredible landscapes of the world that are too often taken for granted. Julia’s written account sheds an immense amount of difficult truth about human greed and disconnectedness from the importance of the natural world; however, her persistence and passion are truly the epitome of hope. I’m inspired and in love with her words and her story.

You know when people ask ' If you could have lunch with anyone, who would pick' ? Well you might just want to consider adding Julia "Butterfly" Hill to that list of potential fantasy lunch dates!

This humble story shows just how much one person really can make a difference. As Julia spends over 2 years living in a tree to protect the forest, we learn not only about her, but about how consumerism/greed, violence, and the lack of love in our society, is destroying our world.

This is a truley remarkable account of Julia's story. I really wish there was more to it than these 288 double spaced ,because I feel like I would have loved to keep reading about this for a while.

A powerful story about the human spirit and humankind's ability to stand up for what is right and make a difference!

Julia Butterfly Hill takes us on a journey that led her to sit in a redwood tree for 738 days. It was not her original intention. Visiting the Redwoods with friends, something pulled her into staying and saying yes to one short tree sit and then another, until a moment She shares the beauty and harshness and challenge of sitting in the tree through two winters, as she shows us how she became an environmental activist and a voice for saving the redwoods. I loved how Julia showed what she learned about the forest and the way she spoke on the radio, from the tree, to bring about awareness and change. Prayer, grit, and heart. An inspiring book and something that we can all use to make a difference wherever we live.

This is the autobiographical story of Julia Butterfly Hill, a remarkable woman who lived on a tree-sit platform atop a California redwood called Luna for two full years.

She originally went up Luna looking for her purpose in life, and was most assuredly given her answer. While living in Luna, she had a vantage point of pervasive clear cutting and non-sustainable logging practices can do to the environment.

She took up the mantle to protect not only Luna, but other similar forests, because we’re all interconnected. Every impact to the environment has an impact on our humanity and she wanted the logging company (Pacific Lumber) to see that.

By educating herself on forestry, agriculture, soil erosion, geology, logging and other related subjects, she found what she wanted to do with her life. She became the face of a movement, taking interviews by cell phone and radio, meeting with politicians, musicians, actors, and other environmentalists — all from a tree!!

After two years of battling with Pacific Lumber to protect Luna and the surrounding area in perpetuity, she came down and became a voice for sustainability at large.

She has an important message that I hope we can all take something from. I highly recommend this book.

And of course, at the end, I googled if Luna is still standing as of April 2019 and the answer is yes!

This book is a truly incredible memoir. I’d heard some minor details of the story before, but it was cool to hear the full firsthand account from Julia. Her perseverance and determination is inspiring. Highly recommend the book.