BC Radio Solent’s podcast and webcast Secret Hampshire, in its episode “The David Attenborough of his day” (6 December 2025), shared the remarkable story of Dr Richard St Barbe Baker (“St Barbe”), a man who dedicated his life to planting, protecting and celebrating trees. Yet to look only at his practical achievements is to see just one side of a much richer picture. His care for trees flowed naturally from the personal, philosophical and moral values that shaped everythin