When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter , and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him. 

Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was "No". 

Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn't get his idea accepted. 

Paul later got married but his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges." Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting. 

And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against _ . Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing. 

Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.
Who went to college?
Where did he grow up?
Was he a single man?
Where was his childhood residence by?
Was it good for the surroundings?
What was his dream?
Was he encouraged to do so?
What did he major in at school?
What did the smelter destroy?
What did he sneak around and do under the cover of darkness?
How many acres was it?
Did animal life start to appear?
Was he acknowledged for his tasks?
Was he a young man when he achieved it?
In his younger years was he ever violent?
What did he do?
why?
Who wrote the quote that encouraged him?
Did he gain employment for the cause he was trying to achieve?
Was the legal system every involved?
Paul
Paul
Utah
Utah
Yes, in college
Paul later got married
a copper smelter
a copper smelter
no
the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland
to try to bring the trees back
try to bring the trees back
No
No
the science of plants.
the science of plants.
a beautiful forest
a beautiful forest
started planting
started planting
fourteen thousand
fourteen thousand
yes
Slowly rabbits appeared
yes
the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing
no
For fifteen years
yes
Paul knocked him down.
he knocked someone down
knocked him down
he called the wasteland an awful area
called it an awful area
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson 
yes
the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing
yes
as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment