THE MAN WHO PLANTED
TREES by Jean Giono. 1954 / 52 pages.
Jean Giono said the purpose of
his story 'The man who planted trees' "was to make
people love the tree, or more precisely, to make them
love planting trees." To help bring this dream to
life, Chelsea Green is collaborating with Global Relief,
a program of the American Forestry Association. Chelsea
Green is donating 5% of all the book's sales toward
Global Relief's campaign to ease the threat of global
warming by planting trees - millions of trees. By putting
a message from Global Relief in the back of 'The man who
planted trees', Chelsea green hopes to give individuals a
way to follow Elzeard Bouffier's inspiring example and
take action to replenish our precious earth. In that
spirit, Chelsea Green and Global Relief have created the
'Jean Giono Award, to be given annually for the best
tree-planting effort made by an individual. 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.
