Olive tree
A long-lived twisted tree of dry country — patient producer that survives centuries in poor soil.
An olive tree in a dream is the dream's image of a patient producer that survives centuries in poor soil. The olive is not spectacular; it is reliably yielding for longer than the people who planted it. The dream brings the olive tree when something in your life — a family practice, a quiet vocation, a piece of land or work meant to be left to the next generation — is operating at a timescale much longer than a single life. An olive tree honoured for what it has given is the dream affirming the long tenure. An olive tree cut down for a quick use of the land is the dream noting that centuries of slow yield were ended in a single morning, and what the wood was burned for will not last a fraction of what was taken.