“The real strength of therose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches.”

“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?”

“The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the tree by reversing it. To the native, the roots are branches now, and the branches are roots. To ensure that there would be no more baobabs, the devil destroyed all the young ones.”

“a dead branch can not produce flowers”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order”