By the time workers have picked a field, tens of thousands of words have flown from mouth to ear. Part of the landscape’s mind – its memories, connections, rhythms – is thereby held in human consciousness. Work among the olive trees does more than yield oil; it creates and deepens the stories from which are made human and ecological communities.
-David George Haskell
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