Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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Richard Fuller (minister) (1804–1876) United States Baptist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.
“A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
Though often attributed to Garvey, this statement first appears in Charles Siefert's 1938 pamphlet, The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art.
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Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 6 : Higher Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.
It is the prerogative of man that he need not blindly follow the law of his natural being, but is himself the author of a higher moral law, and creates it even in acting it out.
