“We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics. Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial root, adventitious growths and rhizomes.”

“We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty! But remember there is this difference between us that with every autumn the old Leaves die, and with every spring new Leaves are born; but if the Roots once perish neither you nor the tree can live at all.”

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

“Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

“The root of prejudices of all kinds, be they mystical, pseudoscientific, racial, or otherwise, stems from a non-scientific worldview.”

“Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”