Quote by Robert Walser

“Why harvest before the fruits gets ripe?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be…

— Mark Bowden

“In hidden orchards the stone fruit ripened so fast that what we didn't eat was given to the animals, and so like chimps like…

— C Pam Zhang

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

“THE ARRIVAL Like a tide it comes in, wave after wave of foliage and fruit, the nurtured and the wild, out of the light…

— Wendell Berry

“And then as the little plane climbed higher and Olive saw spread out below them fields of bright and tender green in this morning…

— Elizabeth Strout

“It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.”

— Charles Darwin

“She tasted like flowers and chocolate and gentle waves upon the shore.”

— Catherine Bybee

“Like an undiscovered fish in the sea, we have a hidden potential somewhere within us, waiting to be found, nurtured and enjoyed.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“THE SEA In my room by the seashore, I can tell without going to the window That the boats sailing outside Are carrying a…

— Anonymous

“Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those…

— James Guida

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her.…

— Nadifa Mohamed