At the Jardin botanique in Montreal, Canada you’ll find The Frédéric Back Tree Pavilion. Appropriately, in light of The Man Who Planted Trees, the pavilion encourages ways to foster connections with Nature and deepen knowledge of the place of trees in our lives. We’ll return to Frédéric Back a little later. But first let’s focus on The Man Who Planted Trees, a modestly scaled story which has a mighty reach.
Published in 1953 and written by Jean Giono (1895–1970), The Man Who Planted Trees enjoys the status of a classic. Giono spent much of his life in Manosque, ...
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