“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.” EarthSeaMountainBuiltRootsTownsTrainRosePlantPassingPassingsPermanentBurnedMistTremblingPrehistoric Book:Boy's Life Source: Boy's Life
“Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.” YearsMayLongEarthLife IsSeaStonesRootsBusyMilesBeachStreamsSoilThrowingCoastFloatsMineralsStrandsGraniteBoulders Author:Bill Mollison
“Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.” MenMayTreeSeaProduceGardenRootsMereFruitGravesEdenGarden Of Eden Author:Amelia B. Edwards
“Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.” PeopleImportantProblemChristianSocialCausesReligiousChristianitySeaRootsPopulationShootingElephantsOtters Author:Ted Turner
“Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.” LastsAmericaNationsDemocracySeaRocksCenturyWindRootsSeedsRage Author:George W. Bush