Simple Roots

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:

    Such simple things,
    And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
    Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,—kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,—the roots of all things are in man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)