The Man Who Planted Trees - Softcover

Giono, Jean

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9781890132323: The Man Who Planted Trees

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ISBN 10: 1890132322 ISBN 13: 9781890132323

Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 1999

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A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzeard Bouffier who, with great determination, plants 100 acorns everyday over thirty years

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"Jean Giono's story of a man's generosity to nature-and through nature, to other humans-surely belongs among the most moving and endearing statements of our hope. The story-vision and parable and manual-correctly opposes the tree-planter, the earth-husband, to the makers of war. In the figure of ElzEard Bouffier, Giono summaries the best that can be said of our species. It has given me much joy to reread this story."--Wendell Berry

-Jean Giono's story of a man's generosity to nature-and through nature, to other humans-surely belongs among the most moving and endearing statements of our hope. The story-vision and parable and manual-correctly opposes the tree-planter, the earth-husband, to the makers of war. In the figure of ElzEard Bouffier, Giono summaries the best that can be said of our species. It has given me much joy to reread this story.---Wendell Berry

"Jean Giono's story of a man's generosity to nature-and through nature, to other humans-surely belongs among the most moving and endearing statements of our hope. The story-vision and parable and manual-correctly opposes the tree-planter, the earth-husband, to the makers of war. In the figure of Elzeard Bouffier, Giono summaries the best that can be said of our species. It has given me much joy to reread this story."--Wendell Berry

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"In Giono's work what every sensitive, full-blooded individual ought to be able to recognise at once is 'the song of the world'" Henry Miller

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