Quotes About Rootedness

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.

He was a tree stump of a man, limited in his outlook but rooted and unshakeable in his certainties.

Sve je lapidarno, sve stoji na ne?emu, sve ima svoju podlogu, ukorijenjeno je, sve ima tri dimenzije. Žive?i tako, ?ovjek bi i sam mogao postati trodimenzionalan, vratiti se natrag do Euklida, razviti se natrag do stvarnog dodirivanja tvari i sam se pretvoriti ponovno u tvar!

Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere.

When you give yourself wholly to a piece of ground, its goodness enters your bloodstream like an infusion. You will never be alone the same way again, and never quite dislocated. Your heart will grow down into and back out of that ground like a tree.

Control.... is not what we need. What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.