Olive Tree

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    For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.

    It’s a tree on a riverbank: how long can it survive?
    Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.