A thing as lovely as a tree

Perhaps the tree huggers and the money men can find common ground after all. Smack dab in the middle of “The Life & Love of Trees’’ (Chronicle), an oversized book of lush photographs from all over the world, is a quote from Warren Buffett: “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.’’ Helen Keller, Pablo Neruda, Gerry Adams, and Albert Einstein also are quoted, but no words can match the beauty and power of the images author Lewis Blackwell has gathered.