The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.” — Rebecca Helm-Ropelato Copy Share Image
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom… — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?” Mikel smiled,… — Jo Graham Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food,… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“olive trees. As I looked closer at them I wondered if they had escaped; their trunks and roots were so gnarled and… — Giacomo Giammatteo Copy Share Image
I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes'… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am… — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
