#roots

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#chaos #civilization #destruction #fear #insecurity

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. ↗

— Felix Adler

#corrupt #diseased #fruit #private #probity

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#inside #landscape #people #roots #you

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #independent #roots #wanted #weird

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#banks #blowing #creatures #hold #live

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement. ↗

— Dick Armey

#activism #activists #call #government #grass-roots

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#come #must #planted #roots #soul

Political development should start at the grassroots. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#grassroots #political #should #start

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#been #boundaries #build #compelling #creation