It's a large converted olive farm with soldier-like olive trees as wide as an average family car filling the large estate at the foot of the Murge near Fasano.
Ms. Pisani, an avid gardener who now owns an environmental-consulting business, did not like the grove of olive trees that crowded the ground-floor terrace because they blocked the view of the rest of the property and the Luberon mountain range in the distance to the south.
Traffic lights are bent over and twisted like old olive trees.
I groped around for what looked like the trunks and branches of olive trees.
I was not at all prepared to encounter him, like a figure from the Old Testament under olive trees, with the scent of rosemary or lavender in the air.
The results showed a sharp decrease in the Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean trees like oaks, pines and carobs, and in the local cultivation of olive trees, which the experts interpret as the consequence of repeated periods of drought.
Driving to Jericho, he passes fields of olive trees, "uprooted and thrown over under the open sky like dishonoured corpses", the fields around them an "open collective grave".
"It's filled with olive trees.
Today it's a green hillside among olive trees.
