About the book: year / - I devoted my whole life to this project. I gave all my strength, all my blood to the last drop. Ever since I heard this expression - “And apple trees will bloom on Mars” - I was fired up with crazy ideas. Other colonists did not approve of me, saying that there were much larger and more important tasks. They did not understand that the apple tree blooming on Mars is a symbol of the greatness of the human spirit, a monument to Man.