Zacharias Papantoniou

“ Then silence took its place again.
—Perhaps he has fallen asleep somewhere? said Costakis. So they went right down. They saw some big rocks and two small trees which grew out of their crevasses. They also looked behind them; nothing. ”

“ On the point of leaving, their thoughts went to the basket of the chestnut gatherer, who passed in front of the school calling...
Finally they arrived at the fir tree.
Who would have said that the fir tree looked like a chandelier in the church! Looking at it they see on its proud branches something like altar candles. They're its fruit; we get pine tar from them.
All the trees on land have irregular shapes. But in the mountains the cypress and the fir tree stand erect. Ship's masts are made from them.
Here in the mountains the fir tree isn't really bothered about the winter. ”