Quotes

“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?” - Kate Chopin

“Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.” - Douglas Hyde

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

“Nobody roots for Goliath.” - Wilt Chamberlain

“Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!” - Lady Gregory