As I cannot describe this guy, I will only share some links with you and let you make your own opinion on him.
Unfortunately everything is in French, I hope you will be able to translate it in Google Chrome or something like that.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Rabhi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auIuewVu6Es
As someone said, “There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice”. So choose to live a better life.