“It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.” PeopleCountryLightTreeRootsMedicineFruitWinterHeatBranchesSheepShelterPeasantsSuppliesGoatsOlivesFodderFirewoodOlive TreesFood Medicine Book:Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands Source: Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.” WorldWayMoralStepsGonePathTreeRootsDown AndForestsLionsNew WorldPioneersOld Trees Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
