" He thought of all that the newspapers were printing about him. Each man attributed to him his own hopes, his own motives and rancors, and his own secret misanthropy: it was in vain that he stated his own aims clearly; there was nothing he could do about it.
And yet the truth was clear; it could hardly be clearer.
He loved all those free roots that gave their beauty to the earth and to man’s life on it.
He loved nature, and he had always done his best to defend it. "

― Romain Gary , The Roots of Heaven