- Fiction, Ecology, Reforestation, Tree planting
A French widower, who plants 100 acorns each day and restores the landscape over the 30 years of his work.
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Contemplative, grave, earnest and warm.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Giono
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 53
- Publisher
- Peter Owen, Chelsea Green, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- fur, Japanese, wel, English
- ISBN
- 9781933937168
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First sentence
“For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years.”
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