On the preservation and maintenance of monumental olive trees

The olive tree is living proof that beauty has nothing to do with perfection. The evolution of the twisted and gnarled wood into the collection of lanceolate and graceful leaves reaches the best aesthetic expression in monumental plants: the slashes imprinted in the secular structure express the history over the centuries, like the signs of time shape a human face.

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