The Man Who Planted Trees

00:00:01 THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES

00:01:32 or perhaps a well.

00:02:57 Everywhere I came upon the same drought

00:04:21 He lived, not in a hut, but in a real house

00:05:53 It had been agreed that I would spend the night;

00:07:00 There was rivalry in everything

00:08:06 That was the only time we spoke.

00:09:07 Before he went

00:10:17 he began to drive his iron staff into the ground.

00:11:29 Of these he still expected to lose half

00:12:33 he had resolved to remedy this state of affairs.

00:13:36 An infantryman was hardly likely to have trees on his mind.

00:15:13 we think of men of fifty as ancient with nothing left to do but die.

00:16:22 When I reminded myself that all this was the work

00:17:30 He hadn't worried about it; resolutely he had gone about his simple task.

00:18:37 But the change had come about so gradually

00:19:55 We must remember that this exceptional man had worked in utter solitude:

00:21:17 For it was really quite impossible not to be enchanted by the beauty of these young healthy trees

00:22:40 had endowed this old man with almost awe-inspiring health.

00:23:38 there was never enough wood.

00:25:09 Wild creatures who hated each other, who set snares to make a living.

00:26:21 The new houses, freshly roughcast

00:27:44 have begun to flow again.

00:28:51 But when I consider the passionate determination