Root River may refer to:
In Canada:
- Root River (Northwest Territories), a tributary of the Mackenzie River
- Root River (Algoma District), a tributary of the St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario)
- Root River (Kenora District)
In the United States:
- Root River (Minnesota)
- Root River (Wisconsin)
Famous quotes containing the words root and/or river:
“But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has if he see that it is accidental,—came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him and merely lies there because no revolution or no robber takes it away.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is from quiet places like this all over the world that the forces accumulate which presently will overbear any attempt to accomplish evil on a large scale. Like the rivulets gathering into the river, and the river into the seas, there come from communities like this streams that fertilize the consciences of men, and it is the conscience of the world that we are trying to place upon the throne which others would usurp.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)