glyph 123: book ... individual vision, action . personal initiative ..... arabian sea ..... water

A magnificent story of vision, perseverance, and transformation.

The original French:
http://is6.pacific.net.hk/~rebylee/text/arbres.html

English translation by Peter Doyle
http://home.infomaniak.ch/arboretum/Man_Tree.htm

Giono's story is fiction, but its message is not.

Abdul Karim:
A man who planted trees:
http://www.stephensonstrategies.com/tips/management_tips/personal_initiative.html

A man of the woods:
http://www.farmedia.org/spectrum/man_of_the_woods.html

One man plants a forest:
http://forests.org/archive/asia/indfor.htm

http://www.appleseed.org/johnny.html

Looking for other examples. - leif at pattern dot com

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entered before July 9, 2006; edited/updated November 26, 2015