The Farmer Who Planted in Silence

In 1947, a French shepherd named Elzeard Bouffier — or so Jean Giono told us — planted acorns one by one across the barren highlands of Provence. But the real story happened in the hills outside Knoxville, Tennessee, where a woman named Dorris Cole spent eleven years replanting her family's land after a wildfire stripped it to charcoal in 1983.…