Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in…

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

— Mark Twain

My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects.…

— Caterina Fake

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

— Dolly Parton

“When you are overly concerned with physical matters, and even vital physical matters, you pull yourself in. And more ridiculous, you pull up your…

— Jane Roberts

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

“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond…

— Ashim Shanker

“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

“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending in every…

— Elif Shafak

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