Palaver Trees
Some places have what in Africa are called “palaver trees,” venerable
and highly respected old trees “where dignitaries would meet and negotiate,
where holy men would sit with worry beads,” where children would play, climbing
about in the branches, where any number of other people might gather, to sit
doing one of man’s favorite things: running their mouths and flapping their
tongues; in a word, palavering.
Thomas Pakenham, Remarkable Trees of the World
[excerpted from the book by U.R. Bowie, Here We Be. Where Be We?]
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