I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about…

“Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley all along,…

— Mary Roach

“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.”

— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

— William Shakespeare

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the…

— Giorgos Seferis

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much,…

— Odysseas Elytis

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees;…

— Roland Barthes

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?” Mikel smiled, and it…

— Jo Graham

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he…

— Rabbi Akiva

“olive trees. As I looked closer at them I wondered if they had escaped; their trunks and roots were so gnarled and scarred it…

— Giacomo Giammatteo

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the…

— Victor Hugo

“Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides