Arbitrary Quote by Haruki Murakami

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

— Lucretius

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

— McKenzie Wark

“Like the seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground. I here and now vow to constantly nourish my definite purpose…

— Rhys Blanco

We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the…

— Robert R. McCammon

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset.…

— Khalil Gibran

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

— Wangari Maathai

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond…

— Henry David Thoreau

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

— Mick Jagger

“The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden…

— Mrs. Charles E. Cowman