The Southerners’ olive tree, the one that was planted in the front yard, now overturned, uprooted, burned, and burned and burned, they cradle it. They kiss it, like a mother her dead child. They hold ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The olive tree's dominance in the Central Mediterranean over the past 3,700 years is primarily due to human activity rather than climate change. Initially ...