go river go past the shady tree...

 When this olive tree sprouted, 4000 years ago, circa 2000 BC. In China someone was discovering Bronze, and the last mammoth was hunted by humans. The seventh dynasty of Egypt was over and in Crete, King Minos initiated the construction of the palace that would inspire the myth of the Minotaur and its maze... In the same period that this tree germinated was when our species discovered the existence of glass. The tree, which is in Greece, saw man walk from the bronze age and arrive in the atomic age, and today. She saw the world change, she saw kings, despots, politicians, poets, warriors, and prophets rise, and die. She went through many, countless wars. And she still keeps giving olives every season...