Ryan’s a bonsai scholar. Long after we’re all gone, his channel will still be around to inspire future bonsai enthusiasts

Intellect is so attractive. Being humble, being able to teach and willingness to share your knowledge is next level. Thank you.

This body of work is just spectacular. Please publish these projects in book form, as this should be studied through the ages!

Surely the best bonsai video I have had the pleasure to watch. Being a landscape photographer from the UK, I am very familiar with beech forests, and your composition is ridiculously accurate. It takes me instantly to local forests I know very well that I grew up exploring, and I hope that one day I will have the pleasure to see it in the flesh. All of the groups were amazing, but the Monterey cypress planting takes me to a place and an environment that I have never had the pleasure to visit, however just seeing it transports me there. Majestic! Although because of their scale, your group plantings are beyond most people, the ideas that they display and the questions they pose, are surely changing the way we as a community view the whole concept of bonsai, and even though I am relatively inexperienced you have inspired me to have a go at creating my own small scale British Hawthorn forest full of tightly knitted twisting trees. Thank you, and I hope you and the whole Mirai team can keep up the good work.

This is beautiful and really drives home the need for conservation and stewardship. That we do not own anything, and are merely the caretakers of it until our time is done. The world gives us infinite examples of beauty and dynamism. This really gives me hope for Bonsai as both an artform, and a life practice.

Ryan’s skill in bonsai is only matched by his ability to articulate it. And inspire. Thank you.

You remind me of a person who has spent years practising classical music / dance & now effortlessly break the boundaries to create new melodies & drama which only a person with depth of knowledge can

Very well said Ryan! As I type tears are welling up. First, because I just recently (yesterday actually) lost a cat of 16.5 yrs. But also because a forest, and your words, are very moving. I currently have a Dawn Redwood forest that I finally put together back in March 2021. A dream, or vision, I've had since before starting to learn bonsai in 2007. In it's current state I don't know if it embodies a ecosystem or environment. Especially an ecosystem long since gone. A Cretaceous ecosystem. I love prehistoric life forms. Still to this day at the age of 52. I will save this video for future use in pursuing to achieve that concept of a time when Laramidia (the western part of North America divided by the Great Interior Seaway) was full of Dawn Redwoods, Ginkgos and other trees. The feel that if you were in a Dawn Redwood forest of that time would come across a Triceratops herd browsing. Or 2 bull Styracosaurus battling. Or worse a T rex on the hunt. Anyway, enough babbling lol. Thank you Ryan! Thank you!

Ryan you certainly have masterful grasp of the English language, I bet your college thesis's were very long? Lovely forest.

This is a beautifully made documentary. I love the dedication to accurate representation of the forests these trees are native to, as well as the raw beauty of your compositions. The patience and care involved in the redwood forest is admirable.

I just watched "TREES" on HBO MAX , and It brought me to tears from the pure & sincere dedication, Admiration, then the Saddest destruction that one person can be capable of destroying such, I was left speechless with a new found respect & Reverence❤ I live in S. Florida & HAD to watch because I find myself walking my dog in AWE & wonder of the way the vines wrap and grow in all different directions to display such pure BEAUTY. As a hospice critical care nurse & seeing so much loss, I think learning how to grow & admire is something that will FILL MY HEART ❤ I JUST HAD TO SAY~ THANK YOU because now Im Fascinated about learning more about all TREES & excited to learn how to help them LIVE ❤

Ryan. The Redwood Forest is So sweet and Awesome looking. I been following you when you first Come home and you Are a America Master Bonsai Teacher. Yes you are doing it Right for America Bonsai. You always take it to the Next Level. Before I Pass away I would look to see your Bonsai Garden and the Redwood Forest. In Closing Peace Be With You and Families. Greg of Ohio.

Simply sublime Ryan, what a thoughtful and inspiring insight to this bonsai form and how nature in your country has compelled you on your quest to replicate these natural forests in the bonsai form 👏👏👏👏👏

Absolutely awesome!You have said some of the same things I have said to other for years(we're not in Japan)but because I'm not a bonsai traditionalist but an American maverick,my thoughts are dismissed but because of who you are in the bonsai world,your ideas are considered. I think that's awesome.How about a composition for the oaks ie...valley,live,coastal. The drive from the central valley in Fresno to the central coast i.e. Monterey (my favorite place because of the Monterey Cypress)area going through Los Banos up Pacheco Pass,displays great rolling hills with some great old oaks. Very hot and dry in that area and the oaks are absolutely amazing. Your awesome bro keep up the good work.

Love the trees. Love the video. Love the information. Love the passion. So well done.

Breathtaking! Would love some chapters on this video please :)

I have always loved that bald cypress forest. Each tree is a masterpiece and you put them all together. Thanks

Bravo! Awesome

Ryann you are truly an amazing artist.

Ryan, you have incredible storytelling abilities, your passion is palpable in this video. Thank you.

Thanks Ryan, you are definitely very articulate and your journey with applying traditional and unique bonsai practices to create these natural compositions is just top notch. I love how you also show the time these pieces of art take, not touching the redwoods for 6 years for example, the amount of study you put into each species is tremendous, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

La verdad, no es fácil ver este video y no sentir la pasión que estos videos muestran por el bonsai y la naturaleza.... Gracias Ryan. Tus pasos son un ejemplo y una guía para muchos de nosotros en muchos aspectos....

Nature is amazing and you bring us closer to her. Thank you.

Una maravilla de video y bonsáis. Sigues siendo un referente para mi. Le animo a seguir deleitándonos con sus vídeos. Gracias

The White Mountain National Forest is truly one of the places you are speaking of. The alpine zone has some of the most beautiful trees. The way the weather has molded them is truly amazing.

Bonsai Art, by an Artist, not only visually but verbally...thank you Ryan, and of course the amazing cameraman :) I enjoyed listening as much as I did watching. Just beautiful.

Ryan thank you very much for sharing this fantastic and very interesting video! You are a great professional and artist of bonsai with an enormous experience and passion! Very compliments and thank you very much!👍👍👍👍

This is just amazing and a wonderfull interpretation of natures beauty and power

Ryan, You and your teams' cutting edge creativity and professionalism has been a God send to the bonsai community, BSOP and the Pacific NW of the U.S. Thank you!

Thank you. this was a very inspiring video to watch, see, learn and listen to. So much information to taken in and to watch the American stile develop.

Even though we never went to go the redwood forest is without a doubt a representation of the Mariposa grove, and I am honoured to have seen this composition in person with my clay brothers

Great video!! I am new to bonsai, just an infant. I have been looking at all the Japanese trees, looking at all the American trees our culture the way our trees grow, our land scapes brake all the traditional rules. I’ve only been at this a year, I’ve been confused on how to take our country and represent it in the bonsai world. I think you have embodied what American cultural bonsai has to go to, don’t lose the Japanese styles, but improve the image to become truly American bonsai, our land scapes are similar but definitely different,and with our native trees we must expand our view and concept of bonsai. Thank you I thought I was just not understanding bonsai. But now know how to move forward. Thank you.

Absolutely Awesome!! I love this channel. ( Think I may.have a small crush on Ryan too! lol!)

I have loved this since released on Mirai Live...it is powerful and great in many ways. I see forest creation done so poorly, having all the big trees up front and small in the back, triangle in composition...you have to have small trees in the front as well for generational aspect and different heights to show the different trees and lines...the way Mirai does all things bonsai is phenomenal and of the highest quality! Mirai is truly the future!

At six minutes in, I couldn't agree more. I'm very new to Bonsai, and agriculture as well. However, with my limited knowledge, I completely agree. We (or at least I) as aspiring bonsai arborist, should really take the time to go out into our environments and actually see unique trees. No matter the size. See how the wind is treating them. See what kind of soil they're growing in. Think about it's light source, it's water source. Nature after all is a much better inspiration than most of our ideas. Plus, in my mind, the whole idea of bonsai is simply to give myself an activity that calms my soul. Also it allows me to learn, learn, learn, about different species of trees. The care of them, the experimental factor of trying new things, the risks vs. Rewards that you see once you start dabbling. Great video. I'm an instant subscriber

Each an incredible representation of unique forest landscapes. The dedication to waiting until you’ve visited and have some understanding of each ecosystem shows in the final product. I look forward to documentation of other forests you have yet to create.

Every time I watch one of your videos I'm educated and inspired to do better bonsai, and not to be better than the next bonsai artist, but better than I was the last time I worked on a tree.

You have a gift and you share it well. Thank you.

Yay new Mirai! 🎉

Truly American bonsai master

This video was extremely interesting & the different forests so fascinating to witness. Truly a video to watch again & again.

I cried with the redwoods I just can’t believe the scale the patient e the hart that you showed ❤❤❤❤

You never disappoint. Thank you.

Man you are such an amazing person , you make life deserve to live , thank you

Wow, Pure artistry! Thank you Ryan.

Love the story. Beautiful

This has touched my heart so deeply. Truly inspiring. My parents have visited the redwoods and I've always wanted to see their enormous stature....redwood bonsai, truly amazing my friend.

Great video! Love the redwood part! I’m in zone9b in Northern California, can get very hot here, I’ve grown coastal redwoods here and have noticed they absolutely need greenery around them to flourish, must be some kind of evapotranspiration environment that they flourish in, just like they’re native environment. Some people plant them in dry areas and they grow very slowly and have a lot of browning on them, I plant them around moist areas and the growth is unbelievable! One of my trees planted 10 years ago is now 60’ tall! Full sun till 1-2pm then some after shade, they’ll take 100° summer temps as long as they have moisture. I like the way you’ve styled(wired) them, it’s pretty much up, up, up. Many times the tops will snap off due to wind and guess what? Yup, a limb will become the new apex and continue upward growth. I’m working on a forest now, just chopped trunks on container grown and will ground grow others to create a forest. Keep us updated on these projects Ryan, love the wealth of knowledge you bring to us!!😃👍🏻

Hutan bonsai yang menyerupai alam

Hey man … you remember everything and that is awesome. If ever I decide to come out your way, it would be a privilege to enter the garden. I’m Jeff and I’ve been watching your sessions. I’ve made a rock planting of a Chinese elm and found out… it’s okay being vigorous, but I thought fertilizer was okay, but not after you slap it on a slab!! Stopped immediately. Washed it out with plain water. I gotta learn your ways and techniques

Congratulations, amazing forests.

Wonderful wonderful wonderful work. Amazing forest. Thanks once more, for charing your experience... 🙏👏👏👏🇵🇹

Just watched it again .. Can i just add " Phenomenal "

Pure art, congratulations Ryan!!

One of the most incredible video I have never seen! You are great! The trees are astonishing!! And as always the image/video quality is just impressive! Simply wow!

This is by far the best video ever made!

Wow, ryan you just blew my mind, thankyou great vid

one of the best videos ive ever seen. im to afraid of losing a tree ive been working on for decades to start the bonsai path

That was Epic Mr. Neil TY! :::=^)

So helpful on many levels. I'm just starting to kick around the idea of doing a forest. My inspiration is an amazing aspen forest I saw while bombing around eastern Idaho last spring. The trees were just bursting into an airy lime green. Just can't get that vision out of my head.

Absolutely incredible. Most awesome exhibits I've had the pleasure of seeing. Masterfully done

This was excellent! Thanks mate 👌

So good, so glad I stumbled across you, I can relate to alot that you are saying. It's so cool thinking about Al the elements that need to come together for a forest environment, thanks

Amazing trees ❤❤❤

This video is breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Very inspiring video, i never wanted two things in the bonsai game, one is tanuki and the other is a forest planting. Now I have spent all day looking for a suitable forest shell and I am sure in the spring to start with a beech forest, as it is very often found here in europe and especially in germany! Thank you for this way of understanding bonsai! Luck up from the Ruhrpott, Patrick

Excellent👍👍👍

Hey Ryan, See the spiral branches when you look up at the sequoia sempervirens? The spiral branches are the feature I have built nostalgia around. I remember going to the John Muir Forest as a young lad and camping at Memorial Park, looking up at the Milky Way through the Redwood's spiral branches. In my journey through the Bonsai Murai catalog, I have never heard you talk about this amazing characteristic. Will you comment on this, please? Best, Doug P.S. I absolutely love what the Bonsai Murai Team is doing!

spectacular video. thank you very much for the explanation about the representation of forests in Bonsai in a more naturalistic version. cheers

I love Ryan!

Funny I watched this straight after watching Bjorns visit to Luis Vallejo garden, of which I commented that often you cant see the trees for the forest( referring to the regimented rows of benches and repeated species and forms in many gardens) and that the diversity of trees and architecture of Luis garden make it beautifully unique. Now Ryan presents possibly my favorite bonsai form the Forest. Ironic how my contradiction is a positive. Grand Mirai.

I don't know if I have anything else to say than "Breathtaking"

Wow!!! So inspiring❤️🌲

This was such a beautifully done and inspiring video. I love the way you look at the world around us and hope that my trees can become even a fraction as beautiful as yours. Thank you for sharing this.

Amazing journey. Thank you.

Mind Blowing ..so deep and so informative ..Bravo !

This is insanely beautiful! 😍💚

What a great video 10/10 in bonsai and nature ed.

Great video..Really cool...

wow i am speechless

Truly inspirational, thank you.

thank you for sharing this with us 🙏🔥🙏

This was special Thank you

Wow amazing❤❤

Thank you for sharing this around the redwood as a bonsai forest! 👍. I highly recommend visiting(camping) at the Ft. Ross Ca. state park off Hwy 1, you wouldn’t know there’s a grove below while driving along. It’s amazing to see what the wind does to them and how they naturally graft together forming a intertwined canopy. I’m an Arborist and it changed my concept of the proper growth pattern of redwoods! I grow up camping in the Avenue of Giants! 👍👌🙏❤️🦦🍀

Great video, i love the group plantings, have a few myself. Interesting what you qhere saying about the judge, here in the UK we seem to be going away from the classic looks. I also have an 8 tree redwood. Many thanks

Beautiful story thank you

Great thesis. I’ll be looking forward when you do the Llobolly pine forest of Georgia.

Very informative and inspiring ❤❤❤

In Bonsai we come to understand that less is sometimes more, something to consider in your dialogue.

Is Mirai open to the public? I live so close by- would love to visit..

R E C O G N I Z E

Definitely an inspiration

Amazing❤

Thanks a lot for this video, it is like a bible for me now.

Are these bonsai forests available to view, installations we may pay to see? I live among the redwoods, am creating a mini-fores(not bonsai) t upon my property alongside the parklands, but would love to see their representation like this, or any of these creations. I cannot find information on the website, perhaps I am missing it somewhere. If these are not yet available for public viewing, please consider making it so! Thank you for this work of art.

You are the Anthony bordain In the story telling of bonsai

You can bring the desert back to life.

❤❤❤

Fantastico