Root System Quotes

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make it survive. If you know you are not going to take care of that tree, don't bother

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.

I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.