PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksMuch of The Plant Messiah is pretty well summed up as \'James Herriot, but for ultra-rare plants\' — a string of stories from Magdalena’s travels to collect plants, teach plant propagation techniques, and promote conservation ... Magdalena responds to the logic of biodiversity triage on virtually every page of the book. Much of his argument is the kind of thing R. Alexander Pyron dismissed as sentimentality ... The Plant Messiah aims to ignite a movement.