Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
—Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)
“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)