Twelve million olive trees have protected Lesvos from mass tourism. During the "dark" 60s and 70s, olive oil production kept the population on the island. The population of about ninety thousand inhabitants had no reason to transform their houses into "rooms to let". The low development of Lesvos is now the big advantage of the island. No big hotels, no artificial settlements overcrowded in summer and empty in the winter. Lesvos offers instead real Greek villages inhabited by locals. From ancient times, Lesvos has been a wellspring of inspiration for countless writers, musicians, artists, and philosophers. Notable figures such as Aristotle, the father of Biology, Theophrastus, the first Botanist, Arion, the Guitarist, and Sappho, the first lyric poet, have all drawn from the island's unique energy and beauty.