Where were the ancient groves with thick canopies and filtered light whose mysteries lured the children I read about in books?

The Academy had its site in an ancient grove of plane trees sacred to an obscure archaic hero, Akademos.

Oaks burst up in the marketplace, an ancient grove, watchful and airy.

Pikel, too, seemed caught in the sudden enchantment of this most ancient grove.

Nicholas also led us along the Alerce Trail, an easy 40-minute loop through ancient groves of precious alerces.

I pause a moment beside an ancient grove of beech trees, tended no longer now, though their presence and calm remain.

He does not take her home, however, but rides through the fog until they reach an ancient grove called "The Chase."

No trees grew there; but among the rank grasses could still be seen the burned and axe-hewn stumps of ancient groves.

We were in the ancient grove all right.

By that point, Lexie was standing on the front porch with her arms crossed, facing away from him, toward an ancient grove of cypress trees.