Pete found this interview on YouTube with Sebastião Salgado who is a man with a great story which he is living each day with his wife Leila.
He grew up on his families farm in Brazil that was a 50% rain forested property when he was a child, to a less than 1/2% barren, cattle grazing property that he inherited in later life. Leila suggested they grow the rainforest again when they moved back their. This is their story and link to their own website Instituto Terra (press here).