Feet are moist, "as if pulled out of the earth that very minute"; slumber is ripe, "gathered with the religious voluptuousness of gathered fruit"; the family's weight on the narrator's consciousness is like "a rush of heavy water".
He grazed in the island's fields and glades, or gathered fruit from branches; on the hottest days he would go down to one of the deserted beaches, and there he would bathe, swimming like a horse, chest and head erect, and then he would gallop for a long while, violently churning up the wet sand.
Women gathered fruits and vegetables that grew wild in their territory.
They supplement their crop of plantains, cassava, tubers, corn (maize), and other vegetables with gathered fruits, nuts, seeds, grubs, and honey.
As is well known from later agricultural periods, archaeobotanical assemblages are made up predominately of crops and weeds, together with some gathered fruits and nuts (Jones, 1985).
They hunt wild animals and gather fruit, honey and insects.
The animals gather fruit all summer and save it for later by burying it underground, where the fruit ferments.
AS for the Kuna, they still travel between the islands in their hand-carved canoes powered by outboard motors, gather fruit, and stitch molas.
He gathers fruit and nuts and stocks his attic for the winter, and finds himself hoping the farmer will die, and leave him in control, taking care of the place, looking out for the widow.
One 10-year-old boy, who claims he started working for a Wilmar supplier aged eight, said he gets up at 6am to gather fruit and works every day but Sunday.
He hesitates to say anything because he doubts the farmer would believe "the hired man". He gathers fruit and nuts and stocks his attic for the winter, and finds himself hoping the farmer will die, and leave him in control, taking care of the place, looking out for the widow.
