Light Quote by Malcolm X

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into…

— Simone Weil

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

— Marco Pierre White

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your…

— Wendell Berry

“By the time a tree is full-grown, the underground root system is enormous; a mature oak tree, for example, has literally hundreds of miles…

— Richard M. Ketchum

“You may reach the tree top,and seem to touch the sky , but know that the tree your resting on, is grounded and rooted…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air. The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making…

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

— Celia Thaxter

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

— Andrew Vachss

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

— Pablo Neruda

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of…

— Paul Klee

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But…

— Elizabeth Moon