Aún hoy, en Europa, un centímetro cuadrado de tierra recibe cerca de 27000 gránulos de polen al año, y en la época en que el viento era el único medio de transporte su número debía ser realmente impresionante.
It seems to me extraordinary that this continent, which exported the idea of representative government and parliamentary democracy, which carried the seeds of democracy to far continents where they found fertile soil, should now have taken the axe to the ancestral tree here in Europe.All of us are diminished by that process.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus