#root

I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love with what is mixed and impure Doubtful, dark and hard to disencumber I want beauty I must dig for, search for. Pure beauty is beginning and not end Begin with the sun and drop from sun to cloud From cloud to tree, and from tree to earth itself And deeper yet to the earth dark root. I am in love with what resists my loving With what I have to labor to make live. ↗

— Robert Francis

#beauty #dark #darkness #doubt #earth

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots. ↗

— Andrea Koehle Jones

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #roots #strength-of-character #tree-of-life

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #maturity #roots #soul #youth

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#attachment #belonging #home #homelessness #roots

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#fair #fruits #increase #innocence #remorse

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#goodness #lie #roots #soil

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

The want of money is the root of all evil. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#money #root #want

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#believe #i #i believe #important #remember

This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#christ #christians #come #distinctions #gathering