You don’t want to smother the roots.

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch,...

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story...

Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?””Do I know? […] The silence, it might be … or the stillness. To have no more running to do … to have...

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without...

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as...

How do you eat your roots?

Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they’ll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!

Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.

The stories strike a chord deep within us, … They take us back home, back to our roots.

Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

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...