“Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”
“Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
“Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.”
“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
“All flowers are not to be picked; some are meant to stay rooted so their beauty may continue to sing praises unto nature.”
“Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.”