Earthly Roots Quotes

Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.