Groves Quotes

“I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge

“It is an old custom. Men of good-intentions and goodwill who have the means stud the land around forlorn villages with fine groves and wells for the general comfort of travelers, and also so people from posterity while resting in the shade and refreshing themselves would think of them and would think kindly.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“The field
of olive trees
opens and folds
like a fan.
Over the olive grove
is a sunken sky
and a dark rain
of cold bright stars.
Reeds and half-light tremble
on the banks of the river.
The gray air curls.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children