Quotes About Rootedness

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.

I cannot be weaned/Off the earth's long contour, her river-veins.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Kartais aš jau?iuos kaip šuva. Aš prisirišu prie kiekvienos vietos, kurioje aš pasilieku ilgiau negu vien? dien?. Numeskit, sakau, mane dykiausioj dykumoje, palikit mane joje. Gr?ž? po keli? dien? j?s rasite mane jau ?leidus? ? j? šaknis, ? pat? jos vidur?.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Here, root yourselves beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River, Which will not be moved. I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours—your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

When you look closely at our small giants, one characteristic immediately jumps out at you. Like Righteous Babe, they were all so intimately connected to the place where they were located that it was hard to imagine them being anywhere else.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

I have a lot in common with Moana. I mean, we both grew up on islands. We both are deeply rooted in our culture.

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Love has earth to which she clings.

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

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.

Each time we practice sitting meditation, walking meditation, awareness of breathing, loving speech, deep listening, or any other mindfulness practice, our roots are growing stronger and deeper and we are gaining more solidity and strength.

It had no means of surviving but the thread that bound it to home.

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

But the concepts of 'good' or 'beautiful', so essential to Western thought, are meaningless unless they are rooted to things. The first speakers of language took the raw material of their surroundings and pressed it into metaphor to suggest abstract ideas. The

Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.