“When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every morning on their way to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams. Trees with deep roots know about the things that children need.”

“Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.”

“Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)”

“I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said."I know, " Shar whispered through the darkness.”

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”

“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…”