Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while...

The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.

Good metaphysics has its roots in good physics.

We’re experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the word from...

Language is the only homeland.

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.

It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it’s roots still clung to Earth from it’s...

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I’ve got no idea.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!

Once you get hooked on it, you have a burning desire to discover the roots from which you came, so to speak.

The forces of desire that sway man’s mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots his heart makes him invincible

This is an organic religion. A religion of the people from heart to heart; a faith that finds the presence of the Divine within life, and nature, and ourselves. We don’t have teachers and books...

I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They...

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn’t contribute to either, the good or evil.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us.

I have roots in this community. Those roots are blonde.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

Leaving home’s a cinch. It’s the staying, once you’ve found it, that takes courage.

The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of...

To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I...

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture...

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it...

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their...