Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“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)