Zacharias Papantoniou

“ All these years, and he has never been in court. If all the breeders could be like him! How he protects the trees, old Athanase! If you see a goat in a dream which gives water, you know that it's not one of his. ”

“ Friend! another villager said to him, why are you trying to confuse matters. The thing is clear. The goat eats vegetation? Vegetation holds the ground and the stones on the hillside. If the greenery is eaten, the rains carry away the soil and the stones up to the torrent. The torrent swells, rushes down into the plain and devastates it. If the vegetation is at its place, nothing of the sort will happen. That's why your goat causes a flood. Your dream was right.
—It was exactly right this poor man's dream! After fire and the axe, the goat is the greatest enemy of the forest. ”

“ His way of looking for the tender tips leads to catastrophe for the trees. Because it's the point where the bud is, the bud that will give the seed. When the goat cuts it, the branch can't grow higher. ”