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)
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)