A review by sriq
The Man Who Planted Trees: With a Guide for the Woodwise Consumer by Jean Giono

"Irrational ambition reached inoridnate proportions in the continual desire for escape."

"When you remembered that all this had sprung from the hands and the soul of this one man, without technical resources, you understood that men could be as effectual as God in other realms than that of destruction."

"If he had been detected he would have had opposition. He was indetectable. Who in the villages or in the administration could have dreamed of such perseverance in a magnificent generosity?"