Gardening Quote by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“People like where their roots are, especially when they are away from them.”

— Augusto Branco

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”

— Sheri Reynolds

“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“to feel our roots are connected, even if I never see that leaf of grass again.”

— John Green

“what good are roots if you can't take them with you”

— Gertrude Stein

“those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do.”

— Christopher L. Bennett

“You can't shake the roots of life and hope for a better tomorrow. Planting is the way of our journey, leaving them to grow…

— Niklaus Vestalla

“My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

— Shannon M Mullen

“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”

— Salman Rushdie