Built Quote by Robert R. McCammon

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according…

— Emily Carr

For we are all sprung from earth and water

— Xenophanes

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in…

— William James

“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.”

— John Muir

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

— McKenzie Wark

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

— Tadao Ando

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

— Charles Kellogg

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

— Maya Angelou

“We are people-trees. Our roots are hidden in Earth .The branches spread out on Heavens. The fruits are our energy. Two different energies: The…

— Katerina Kostaki

Where the earth is, we are.

— Walt Whitman

The planet Earth is my home. So no matter where I go, I can dig my feet and set some roots and thrive.

— Jared Cannonier

“You are a fertile God. Many seeds are dropped into the soil. Many do not sprout. Yet beneath the appearance of waste nothing is…

— Michael D. O'Brien