A GIF comparing Vincent van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” to Stan Herd’s crop art rendition (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Arts unless otherwise stated) The gridded version Herd used as a guide ...

Olive trees are ideally suited to hot and dry climates and can be very versatile plants for any backyard. They can grow in beds or borders, and are one of the best trees for small gardens, while they ...

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The 50 acres of olive trees on Dunham Jewett’s farm in Moulton, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, look like a war zone. What had been 10- to 12-foot-high trees with wide canopies are now nothing ...

These trees have endured drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning—much like the people of Gaza. But they fought to survive. Each year, my family looks forward to the olive ...

When Issa Baig, a resident of Gujar Bandi, bought a small piece of land near his home fourteen years ago to plant olive trees following his father's advice, he dreamed that within a few years, the ...

"The Olive Trees," on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a companion piece to the world-famous "The Starry Night," painted at the same time. Robert Gerhardt / The Museum of Modern Art, ...

The slow growth of olive trees forces us to look to the future and consider what kind of world we are leaving our descendants. Pope Benedict XVI plants an olive tree with Israeli President Shimon ...

My family’s olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they’re still here—and so are we. Hend Salama Abo Helow’s ...

Federico Manni first noticed something was wrong with his family's olive trees about six years ago. It was summer, the cicadas were singing, and Manni and his father, Enzo, were weaving through their ...