What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up…

What has roots that nobody sees and is taller than trees. Up up it goes and yet it never grows. What is it?(a mountain)

— Babloo

“Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.”

— Anonymous

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

— Douglas Lockwood

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

— Henry David Thoreau

What has roots as nobody sees. Is taller than trees. Up, up it goes. And yet never grows?

— Anonymous

We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots,…

— Paul L Wachtel

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It…

— Gaston Bachelard

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

— Isaac Deutscher

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“It is the roots which give a tree strength, not its branches.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as…

— Mike Norton

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss…

— George S. Patton

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme