Steve Groves

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
― C.S Lewis

“In truth, it takes very little to make a man happy.”
― Sholokhov M.A., The Don Flows Home to the Sea

“What is it they seek from the king?’ Bazo asked the question for all those who listened, and Kamuza shrugged.

‘This one asks for the right to hunt elephant and take the teeth, this one asks for the young girls to be sent to his wagon, another wants to tell the nation of a strange white god that has three heads, another wishes to dig a hole and look for the yellow iron, yet another wishes to buy cattle. One says he wants only this, and another only that, but they want it all. These people are consumed by a hunger that can never be appeased, they burn with a thirst that can never be assuaged. They want everything they see, and even that is never enough for them. They take the very earth, but that is not enough, so they tear it open like a man rearing a child from the mother’s womb…Everything they see they take; and they see everything, for they are always moving and searching and looking.”
― Wilbur Smith, [Men of Men] [by: Wilbur Smith]

“Imperialism, however, lays burdens, both economic and political, upon the homeland of the conquerors, and its rewards are often illusory…A nation cannot live, or fancy itself to be living, by the efforts of subjects overseas, without some demoralization of its public life at home.”
― J H Parry, Age of Reconnaissance Discovery Explorat