Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's…

— Lev Polugaevsky

Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the…

— Pablo Neruda

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower,…

— Pablo Neruda

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda

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