“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”

“And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth
Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.”

“a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.”

“The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day”

“O autumn winds that bake and burn
And all the world to darkness turn,
Now storm and seize and make of me…
A swarm of leaves from Autumn’s Tree!”

“He told of journeys,
of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,
of an earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day
deeper than roots …”

“I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.”

“Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.”