“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”
Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer
“If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And what if plane trees bore harps which gave forth rhythmical sounds? Clearly you would think in the same way that the art of music was possessed by plane trees. Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?”
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.
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