Quotes About Rootedness

Don't talk to me about hatred if you haven't been married. Only love, only long empathy and identification and compassion, can root another person in your heart so deeply that there's no escaping your hatred of her, not ever; especially not when the thing you hate most about her is her capacity to be hurt by you. The love persists and the hatred with it.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

TERMINAL WANDERLUST: A condition common to people of transient middle-class upbringings. Unable to feel rooted in any one environment, they move continually in the hopes of finding an idealized sense of community in the next location.

the replacement of unique and distinct places by generic blandscapes is severing us from something important.

Remember where you came from.

The root system supports the branches.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

A powerful foundation is worth it in a long run

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

True self is rooted in being

For those who belong nowhere, and for those who belong to one place too much to belong anywhere else.

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.