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Article: Olive oil.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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"However, in Greece, in the valley not far from Delphi, where there is a truly sacred forest that has existed from ancient times and by some miracle is still preserved today," philosopher and scholar Jacques Lacarrier said, "the agricultural warden showed me a tree which he said was more than 700 years old. I took a photograph of it that very day, and looking at the film later I realized a miracle had indeed ...