Alternate Roots

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or roots:

“I alternate treading water
and deadman’s float.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)