A beautiful and fascinating animated short film by Canadian animator Frederic Back. If you love movies about the environment, this will end up on your shelf next to other greats like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Pom Poko.

Both “The Man Who Planted Trees” and “Nausicaä” were released around the time of my grandfather’s death when I was a young child. He was a forestry professor at UMASS Amherst and I’ll forever wonder what he would have thought of works of art like these, esp. considering his research.

Of course, buying from any of those links will help me pay my Internet bill.