Susan Griffin Quotes

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

Europe has been in my bones.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

First and foremost we are Earthlings.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

I love my heritage!

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

You are the land. The land is you.

New York is in my DNA.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.