Tree Roots

Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or roots:

“A single soldier does not make a general, just as a single tree does not make a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)